Replacing AWK with Python in GCC? [LWN.net]

Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?

Posted Jul 26, 2018 4:45 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Replacing AWK with Python in GCC? by smoogen
Parent article: Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?

> It is no different with auto mechanics, building houses, or the various sciences.

Software and especially software maintenance is unlike any other kind. It is very different.

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Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?

Posted Jul 30, 2018 7:08 UTC (Mon) by Rudd-O (guest, #61155) [Link] (1 responses)

It isn't at all different in the sense that people suddenly become "experts" when their cheese is moved.

Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?

Posted Aug 2, 2018 22:38 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Actually, it isn't different at all.

If you let the engineers do things properly, it's a simple job. If you let people with no clue (like the beancounters and marketeers) interfere, then things get messy.

Sadly, it's usually the beancounters and marketeers that hold the purse-strings, so it gets done their way or - more usually - not at all (meanwhile promising customers "it's coming - it really is - it'll be here real soon now").

Cheers,
Wol