“Python is about having the simplest, dumbest compiler imaginable.” —Guido van Rossum, Masterminds of Programming People write source code, machines run machine code. A compiler turns one into the other—how? Somehow stones, taught to read our commands, obey, and the compiler acts at the heart of this magic: it’s the spell that interprets the spell. Take a course following one of the excellent traditional textbooks such as the Dragon Book—whose cover art acknowledges the aura of th...
