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

[Johannes Grødem]

* anton at vredegoor.doge.nl (Anton Vredegoor):

> Maybe it's better to take a shortcut and to directly say what I
> *think* I was implying: The perceived difficulty of the parens (and
> it doesn't matter at all if this difficulty is real or imagined)
> increased Lisp's popularity in the early days because at that time
> it was thought that a programming language worth its wits had to be
> difficult to read.

So you're saying that people use Lisp because they're elitists?  I
fail to see how that is not trolling.

> I would like to add at this stage that "ad hominem" attacks like
> suggesting that I have been smoking - peculiar things maybe? - are
> also considered to be bad form.

Quite, but what is the appropriate response for an obvious troll?

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