Why did no one invent Python before?

[Hung Jung Lu]

"Russell E. Owen" <no at spam.invalid> wrote:
> I think smalltalk users would argue that it was done many years ago. 
> ...
> I think lisp users would also argue for their language. It's really 
> weird to non-lisp users (much more so than smalltalk is to C/python 
> programmers) but really powerful.

Another two sets of languages that are smart in different dimensions:

(a) Haskell: functional programming,
(b) Self/AppleScript/Io: prototype-based OOP (PB-OOP).

regards,

Hung Jung