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

Courageous jkraska at san.rr.com
Thu Nov 21 00:01:10 EST 2002


>> Think all you like. Industry has spoken. Other languages = 10. Lisp = 0.

>True, but they spoke before: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, ...

Not, really. The absence of Lisp in the community is largely due to
a _grass roots_ dislike of Lisp itself.

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