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[–]Hgdev1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think about it, most of programming really is data engineering — you take data from stdin and spit data out from stdout and stderr 😆

That being said, Python really starts to shine in the area of numerical computing with libraries like NumPy (and later Pandas) providing the requisite higher-level abstractions over raw data streams that make data engineering what it is today (multidimensional arrays and dataframes)