Is Python as capable as Perl for sysadmin work?

[Peter Maas]

Jeff Epler schrieb:
> Unlike Perl, Python implements only a *finite turning machine* model of
> computation.  An easy way to see this limitation is in the following
> code:
>     >>> 1.0 / 10.0
>     0.10000000000000001
> In an infinite Turning machine, there would be an unbounded number of
> zeros before the second 1, giving the exact result, not a numeric
> approximation.

Boy, you are cheating us!!!! Wake up, this isn't April 1st! :)))

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