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

[Matthias Heiler]

Hi,

Python comes with a set of really usefull libraries, so you can do many 
interesting things easily.  For many people this more than compensates for 
its slow execution time (compared to compiled common lisp).  Open-source 
libraries for common lisp are rare.  Scheme doesn't even define how a 
"library" should look like.

A second reason for Python's popularity might be that the Python community 
is particularly friendly towards beginners.

Matthias

Oleg wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I don't know much about Python, but I looked at this comparison
> between Python and Common Lisp (
> http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html ), and I couldn't help but
> wonder why Python is popular, while Common Lisp and Scheme aren't?
> 
> Oleg