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

holger krekel pyth at devel.trillke.net
Thu Nov 28 15:52:15 EST 2002


Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> "holger > But who would use yield as an identifier name, anyway?
> 
> Someone writing a program to calculate bond yields, for instance.
> TJR

hi terry,

thanks for the answer although my question wasn't exactly serious.
sorry for not making this obvious enough (only my sig was ':-)').

  holger




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