perl to python

[Daniel 'Dang' Griffith]

On 11 May 2004 12:05:52 GMT, Oliver Fromme <olli at haluter.fromme.com>
wrote:

>Daniel 'Dang' Griffith <noemail at noemail4u.com> wrote:
> > [on sed]  One reason
> > to install it is that it's smaller than perl or python; another is
> > that it probably performs the task faster, since it isn't a general
> > purpose state machine;
>
>FWIW, sed _is_ a state machine, although not really "general
>purpose".  It is a programming language with variables, loops
>and conditionals, and I believe it is turing-complete.  Most
>of the time it is abused to perform simple search-and-replace
>tasks, though.  ;-)

I never used sed for anything but "stream editing", aka search and
replace.  Well, if it's turing complete, my apologies to the sed
author(s).  :-)
    --dang