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

[Carl Banks]

Brad Hards wrote:
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> On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 11:53, Carl Banks wrote:
>> Oleg wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I don't know much about Python, but I looked at this comparison
>> > between Python and Common Lisp (
>> > http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html ), and I couldn't help but
>> > wonder why Python is popular, while Common Lisp and Scheme aren't?
>>
>> As cool as Lisp is, it is too low-level, too hard to learn, too
>> weird-looking, and way too different from C (at all levels) to gain
>> much popularity.
> I don't think that this is it. 
> 
> If "low-level", "hard to learn" and "too weird looking" were real problems, 
> then C wouldn't be popular.

Well, I apparently misused the word "low-level."  I referred to being
close to the inner working of the compiler, as opposed to the most
common use of low-level, close to the operating system.


And if C is weird looking, what is Lisp?


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CARL BANKS