This is actually how I first got into programming when I was younger. I made my first site in ImageReady, but it couldn't do all the other cool stuff other sites did like comment sections and logging in, so I went on a quest to learn how to do all that and the rest is history :)
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ImageReady
Edit: actually, I found an example from 13 years ago https://youtu.be/qCq0JiwMcJs
Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in 20+ years. We used CodeWarrior Pro for my Pascal class at a local community college that I took during high school, because my high school was so small, I literally ran out of classes to take by senior year, so I had to take a programming course at a CC that was 10 miles away. Had to get a waiver to leave school before noon to go to the class because state policy was that students can't be released from school before noon, and because all my classes (all 3 of them) were over by 11:30.
Can you elaborate on this?
As best I can recall, he wrote it in CodeWarrior over a couple weeks together with another guy who presumably knew Illustrator, and Adobe bought it before they had to deal with anything like a business plan.