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

[Greg Ewing]

Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:

> I guess the choice fell on Algol 60 because it were a significant programming
> language that influenced a lot of languages. It's "the mother of all lexically scoped
> bloak languages".

   ^^^^^

I suppose a "bloke language" is what Real Programmers use...

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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