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

[Greg Neumann]

David Garamond <davegaramond at icqmail.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1036959914.4995.python-list at python.org>...
> yes, that's good and all. the only problem is, most people _don't 
> like_it. they are _allergic_ to ((())). so what gives? the things that 
> will make them like:

There are two things which make me cringe.  1) When a Pythonista
complains about allergies to strange delimiters, and 2) when a Lisper
calls other languages too slow.

Greg Neumann