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

[maney at pobox.com]

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote:
> come up with it.  Isn't there a pithy quote along the lines of
> "constraints spark creativity"?

Form is liberating?  Though a slightly mangled old saw like "desperation is
the mother of invention" seems more like what you're looking for.  :-)

> The only biggy for me is the lack of Lisp style (with-... ) macros;
> which of these do you prefer:
> 
> def 

You got cutoff here, or the article got truncated on its way.  Want to try
again?  I expect I'd enjoy seeing what you were going to say.