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

[Richard Earnshaw (lists)]

On 19/07/18 12:30, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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.
> 

You can do multi-dimentional arrays in awk.  They're flattened a bit
like tcl ones are, but there are ways of iterating over a dimention.
See, for example, config/arm/parsecpu.awk which gets up to tricks like that.

R.