van Rossum was one of the implementers of ABC, which indeed was created to experiment with how to develop a programming language for beginning programmers. (Not

van Rossum was one of the implementers of ABC, which indeed was created to experiment with how to develop a programming language for beginning programmers. (Note: he was not one of the designers of ABC.) While van Rossum drew from that experience when making Python, the initial driving goal was as a scripting language for system admin tasks in the Amoeba distributed operating system. https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-was-python-created-in-the-first-place https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-was-python-cr...