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

[Erik Max Francis]

Syver Enstad wrote:

> On another note, I think the Smalltalk method call (keyword message
> send)
> syntax is fabulously readable, why haven't anybody picked that up?
> Code like this is marvelously more understandable than the usual
> position based argument list that one uses in Lisp and C.
>
> Ex: 
> 
> aCircle paintOn: aCanvas at: aPoint

Objective-C uses basically this same syntax, albeit surrounded by
brackets.

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