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

[David Eppstein]

In article <y1wC9.3258$jt3.1116 at newssvr16.news.prodigy.com>,
 Steven Rumbalski <srumbalski at prodigy.net> wrote:

> David Eppstein wrote:
> 
> >> The numbers I hear are that CL runs on average 20% slower than C.
> > 
> > This is after how many decades of Lisp compiler development?
> > 
> Sheesh.  How long have C compilers been around?

Not as long as Lisp by a long shot, and C was designed to be easy to 
compile.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/