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

[Johannes Grødem]

* Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>:

> But that's not going to be mainstream.  In a heterogeneous environment
> both Lisp and Smalltalk have serious issues.

This is really implementation-specific, not strictly language-
specific.  There are Common Lisps that integrate well with C.  There
are even Lisps that let you use inline-assembler and inline-C in your
Lisp-code.

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Johannes Grødem <OpenPGP: 5055654C>