Re: I think I can safely say ...
Various dialects of BASIC (Sinclair, Commodore, BBC) in my teenage years enabled me to take on Visual BASIC in the 90’s to take care of mundane housekeeping tasks in the workplace I eventually entered, so much so that the whole work group used the tools I wrote (I was a geologist). Then later on I was able to ease into shell scripting and Excel macros quite seamlessly, further enhancing productivity without the need for actually needing a developer. These things were more or less throwaway and certainly not part of the company toolkit portfolio, but very useful at the work group level for just knocking something up quickly.