From an interview with Gregory Wilson where he talks about his recent book Data Crunching.
I was also inspired by David Cross’s excellent book “Data Munging with Perl“, which taught me most of what I know about how to actually use the language. If he’d written a cross-language version of that book, I probably wouldn’t have bothered writing mine.
High praise indeed. Looks like you missed a commercial opportunity there, Dave!
Well, there was a plan for alternative versions. We started work on Data Munging with Python a couple of years ago. But the author went AWOL for a while and the project stalled. Eventually the publisher cancelled the project.
Munging is a really horrible word. (Perhaps it sounds too much like minging, or dung, or something).
Perhaps on reflection I wouldn’t have used the word “munging” in the title. Tho’ it _does_ make it really easy to find on Amazon :)