Quote by Mark Lutz Download Open image ““you can do everything in Python that you can in Perl, but”” — Mark Lutz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.” — Mike Loukides Copy Share Image
There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the iteration protocol is even more pervasive in Python today than the examples so far have demonstrated — essentially everything in Python’s built-in… — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“Boolean and and or operators return a true or false object in Python, not the values True or False.” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“Besides directory paths on Windows, raw strings are also commonly used for regular expressions” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“absolutes in performance benchmarks are as elusive as consensus in open source projects!” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“The name used as the assignment target in a for header line is usually a (possibly new) variable in the scope where the for… — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“give people a tool, and they’ll code for a day; teach them how to build tools, and they’ll code for a lifetime. This” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“This description requires elaboration when the value and the slice being assigned overlap: L[2:5]=L[3:6], for instance, works fine because the value to be inserted… — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“We met the list comprehension briefly in Chapter 4. Syntactically, its syntax is derived from a construct in set theory notation that applies an operation… — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
“In Pythons 3.3 and 2.7, you can get help for a module you have not imported by quoting the module’s name as a string… — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
