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

[Fernando Pérez]

nandrats at mail.mdanderson.org wrote:

> It's probably not very diplomatic to complain about it as a newbie, but it
> is more intimidating than helping.

It's a perfectly valid complaint to a thread which has gone light-years 
off-topic long ago. The fact that the complaint comes from a newbie, IMHO, 
gives it even more weight.

Cheers,

f.