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Re: [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage

From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
Cc: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Martin Liška <mliska at suse dot cz>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:30:19 +0200
Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage
References: <a9d62363-4a0f-88f6-2346-4dcb3bebfaa5@suse.cz> <CAFiYyc1ti+nX4pGoJQkPXVeVijNsZgwYviEJaeNTC4FJ4hxpHg@mail.gmail.com> <20180718212839.GW16221@gate.crashing.org>

* Segher Boessenkool:

> What would the advantage of using Python be?  I haven't heard any yet.
> Awk may be a bit clunky but at least it is easily readable for anyone.

I'm not an experienced awk programmer, but I don't think plain awk
supports arrays of arrays, so there's really no good way to emulate
user-defined data types and structure the code.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage
  - From: Richard Earnshaw (lists)

References:
- [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage
  - From: Martin Liška
- Re: [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage
  - From: Richard Biener
- Re: [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage
  - From: Segher Boessenkool

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