PYTHON IS BEST FOR HACKING
TECHGNOR PYTHON IS BEST The word “hacker” is an overloaded word. It has multiple meanings based on context. See the Jargon file for a long list of potential meanings. I’m going to focus on three ideas of “hacking” and why they all connect well with Python: A hacker can be someone who puts things together without care, usually performing the work quickly with an eye for the intended behavior, not the long term survivability of the thing. Often a programmer “hacks together a prototype” or other such forms. Python is great for this early hacking period, where code is often disposable and any solution is good for now. With a giant standard library, and a packaging system that puts prebuilt tools and frameworks at your fingertips, it is often very easy to hack something into existence. Another version of hacking is working with enthusiasm. Figuring out exactly where to improve your code, profiling options, putting things together and taking them apart again. Taking apart things ju...