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

[Michael Hudson]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> writes:

> > [What do you mean by "Lisp-like language" anyway?  Python seems pretty
> > Lisp-like to me...]
> 
> Languages that look and act like Lisp.  One might argue that Logo
> qualifies (as a once-removed cousin), but I don't see how you can really
> argue that Python looks and acts like Lisp.

Looks like, no.  Acts like, yes -- dynamic nature, manifest types,
everything's an object (in some sense, not the Smalltalk one).

> If Python is Lisp-like then what isn't?

C++?

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  Lisp does badly because we refuse to lie.  When people ask us if 
  we can solve insoluble problems we say that we can't, and because 
  they expect us to lie to them, they find some other language
  where the truth is less respected.   -- Tim Bradshaw, comp.lang.lisp