How to insert a column into a matrix, the correct Mathematica way

Question

I think Mathematica is biased towards rows not columns.

Given a matrix, to insert a row seems to be easy, just use Insert[]

(a = {{1, 2, 3},         


        

Answer 1

I usually just do like this:

In: m0 = ConstantArray[0, {3, 4}]; 
    m0[[All, {1, 3, 4}]] = {{1, 2, 3}, {4, 0, 8}, {7, 8, 0}}; 
    m0[[All, 2]] = {97, 98, 99}; m0 

Out: 
    {{1, 97, 2, 3}, {4, 98, 0, 8}, {7, 99, 8, 0}}

I don't know how it compare in terms of efficiency.