On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 06:14 AM, Andrei Kulakov wrote: > No, in the contest of his post. If he meant hacking as programming, he'd > say "programming". Unless he was referred to Python from ESR: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html It specifically recommends that newbies start w/Python, and uses "hacking" as synonymous for "programming" throughout. Erik