>Is it because they didn't have relatively easy-to-use languages such as Python back then? No, it's because (people like Djikstra at least) didn't regard the s

>Is it because they didn't have relatively easy-to-use languages such as Python back then? No, it's because (people like Djikstra at least) didn't regard the stuff we do with Python nowadays as real programming, in the same way you don't regard office doodles as Van Gong style art.