What does Python fix?

[Tim Peters]

[Tim]
>> And Dylan's subsequent meteoric rise to world domination proved that
>> the "Lisp's problem is Lots of Insipid Stupid Parentheses" crowd was
>> right all along <wink>.

[Steven Majewski]
> But the syntax that won in Dylan was the algebraic C-like one, NOT
> the S-expr syntax.

Yup.

> How do you explain that ?

As my sig said,

>> the-reason-lisp-excels-at-getting-ignored-isn't-skin-deep-ly y'rs - tim

Syntax is skin deep.  I'm not part of the "Lisp's problem is Lots of Insipid
Stupid Parentheses" crowd myself, so I never expected that Dylan's choice to
use algebraic syntax would do it good in the end; to the contrary, it
alienated old-time Lisp purists, who were Dylan's best hope for
wider-than-it-got adoption.

Any language even *inspired* by Lisp is doomed to eternal obscurity.  The
Lisp'ers have been gnashing their teeth over "why?!" for decades.  It's no
longer my job to explain it, since I abandoned Lisp years ago (I couldn't
understand the concept of nested parentheses <wink>).

leaving-lisp-angst-to-the-lispers-ly y'rs  - tim