Why is Python popular, while Lisp and Scheme aren't?

[Courageous]

>No, wait, trying to disengage...  Okay, let me expand that.  It's been
>years, and was several versions back, but my impression was that VB as
>it was generally used would be pretty darned untractable without the
>IDE that organized the code - matched the little snippets up with the
>widget/messageID that invoked it.

*Shrug*. Don't know about V.B. Do know about "other Microsoft languages,"
and I know that's not the case with them. As for the GUI part of IDE's,
clearly you can't point, click, and lay down screen elements without
something that does that. A bit of personal bias here: I hate IDE's,
prefer text and command line environments, and that's that. I proved
a long time ago that using the proper toolkit, I could out produce the
top IDE guys around quite significantly. Point and click is for the
clinically slow.

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