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

[Ian Bicking]

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 03:24, Erik Max Francis wrote
> Your overall point is valid, though.  Logo is actually a Lisp derivative
> that is cleverly disguised.  The turtle graphics portion of the Logo is
> the most widely known feature, but actually within the language it is
> almost an afterthought; Logo (Greek for _word_) was originally designed
> to manipulate English sentences, which is why the list-forming
> construct, for instance, is called SENTENCE.

Until they learned that kids found language parsing to be very boring,
but moving a turtle robot around to be very fun :)

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