FWIW, Python was originally written as a shell language for a distributed OS called Amoeba. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_distributed_operating_system h

FWIW, Python was originally written as a shell language for a distributed OS called Amoeba. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_distributed_operating_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_distributed_operating_s... I think it would have seemed out-of-scope to include too many sophisticated features. Also GvR was young, he might not have had [enough] exposure to all those languages, eh?