I'd argue that SAS is much more accessible to non-coders than either R or Python, in that the SAS language is mostly an invocation of statistical procedures, rather than a full-on programming language.

From a field dominated by SAS, moving to R was a pretty steep transition, whereas when I approached R from having learned Python, things made a great deal more sense having been exposed to other programming languages.

Apologies, I haven't used SAS in so long that I had it confused slightly with SPSS.