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

[Pascal Costanza]

larry wrote:

> Why do SOME people think Lisp is a fantastic programming langugae?
> Are we missing something?

Someone at comp.lang.lisp pointed out that this discussion is going on 
here at comp.lang.python. I have recently switched over to Common Lisp 
as my language of choice and have written an article about it, to be 
found at http://www.pascalcostanza.de/lisp/guide.html - you might find 
it worthwhile.

BTW, I am currently writing a just-in-time compiler for Java bytecode in 
Common Lisp - I believe that a similar Python-in-Common-Lisp 
implementation along these lines could be extremely valuable for both 
the Python and the Common Lisp world...


All the best,
Pascal

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