Why did no one invent Python before?

[Terry Reedy]

"Cameron Laird" <claird at lairds.com> wrote in message
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> I see as critical enough time to make sufficient mistakes.

I see Python as a or even the successor to Basic, which was invented over
40 years ago.  It was the first 'computer programming for everybody' (CP4E)
language.  Basic took off in the late 70s with the invention of
microcomputers and the Microsoft port thereto.  Its limitations were
apparent by the mid 80s and so Guido invented/developed a new CP4E
language.

Terry J. Reedy