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

[Michael Hudson]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> writes:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
> 
> > Looks like, no.  Acts like, yes -- dynamic nature, manifest types,
> > everything's an object (in some sense, not the Smalltalk one).
> 
> But surely you're not suggesting that these three features alone make a
> language "Lisp-like," a term I'd use to mean something that looks and
> acts to some degree like Lisp.

As I said before, I think this depends on your view of the universe of
programming languages.  Mine has FORTRAN in it :)

Cheers,
M.

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  Haha! You had a *really* weak argument! <wink>
                                      -- Moshe Zadka, comp.lang.python