(A long time ago I tried to teach programming fundamentals to a maths person. She was completely puzzled by x=x+1. X equals to X+1? That was nonsense in their eyes.)
I don't think so.
> During Van Rossum's stay at CNRI, he launched the Computer Programming for Everybody (CP4E) initiative, intending to make programming more accessible to more people, with a basic "literacy" in programming languages, similar to the basic English literacy and mathematics skills required by most employers. Python served a central role in this
In python the C and even C++ heritage is quite clear, but it is in no way designed like Miranda and Haskell, which actually target to some extent expressing particular mathematical constructs in code, something which neither C, C++ not python ever aspired to.
Neither of these is true. I actually still find it a little weird that Python became so widely adopted by data science people, and that definitely doesn’t seem to be the main user GvR originally had in mind when creating the language.