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

[Bengt Richter]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 08:35:09 -0800, John Baxter <jwbaxter at spamcop.net> wrote:

>In article <3dcf6a25$0$35901$edfadb0f at dread13.news.tele.dk>,
> "Anders J. Munch" <andersjm at dancontrol.dk> wrote:
>
>> A fascinating read - like
>> when they invented garbage collection because they didn't have enough
>> spare bits for reference counting in the IBM 704 machine word ;)
>> 
>> on-a-64-bit-machine-would-McCarthy-have-invented-Python-instead?-ly y'rs,
>
>We might have found out, had IBM ever gotten "Stretch" to work.
>
I thought there was a "Stretch" doing production work at a Navy lab in the 60's.

Regards,
Bengt Richter