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

[Courageous]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:56:48 -0800, Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:

>deed, I think it's highly ironic that people are complaining about
>parenthesis-counting when it comes to Python, because "I don't want to
>be keeping track of whitespace indentation" is one of the key
>anti-Python sentiments (from people who have never used it).  The fact
>that we're not complaining about this in Python now, of course, is
>because it's a non-issue -- you _don't_ have to do such things, your
>editor does it for you.  For Lisp programming, it's exactly the same
>thing.

But requires a specific class of editor, whereas all other editors
around can handle basic programming languages.

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