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

[Bengt Richter]

On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 03:59:04 GMT, Courageous <jkraska at san.rr.com> wrote:
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>I was working a while back on some toy experiments involving using a macro
>language in a clean roomed python knock off that actually edit the parse
>trees directly. Then I got married. Need I say more? :) :)
>
I thought python was licensed BSD-ish and you wouldn't need clean-room antics for
Python itself. Or were you using Python as implementation base to do a knock off
of something else?

Regards,
Bengt Richter