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

[John Baxter]

In article <3dcf6a25$0$35901$edfadb0f at dread13.news.tele.dk>,
 "Anders J. Munch" <andersjm at dancontrol.dk> wrote:

> A fascinating read - like
> when they invented garbage collection because they didn't have enough
> spare bits for reference counting in the IBM 704 machine word ;)
> 
> on-a-64-bit-machine-would-McCarthy-have-invented-Python-instead?-ly y'rs,

We might have found out, had IBM ever gotten "Stretch" to work.

  --John (36 bits is SO confining) B.