Python as a machine tool (Re: Is Python as capable as Perl for sysadmin work?)

[Greg Ewing]

Jeff Epler wrote:
> 
> Unlike Perl, Python implements only a *finite turning machine*

That's interesting -- I didn't know Python could be
used as a lathe. You learn something new every day!

I suppose an "infinite turning machine" would
be a really *big* lathe...

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg