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

[Cameron Laird]

In article <20021108.115059.1034949299.9010 at cybermesa.com>,
Jay O'Connor <joconnor at cybermesa.com> wrote:
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>Yes, I was a Python advocate in a TCL shop for awhile and had a hard
>time convincing
>people that there was a qualitative difference between.
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>set x [lindex [lindex $var 5] 5]
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>and 
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>x = var[5][5]
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Tcl has definite problems that are close to what this
example expresses.  Somebody's tilting the idiomatic
playing field, though; the experienced Tcl-ers I know
would write
  set x $var(5,5)
rather than deal with the monstrosity above.

What makes Tcl look bad is
  set rounded [expr int(a + 0.5)]
vs.
  rounded = int(a + 0.5)
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