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

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Pascal Costanza fed this fish to the penguins on Sunday 10 November 
2002 05:45 am:

> 
> I guess you are referring to "car", "cdr" and the like. They're
> actually not funny but very useful. ("car" returns the first element

        As I recall, they also derive from the hardware that LISP was first 
implemented on -- C)ontents A)ddress R)egister, and C)ontents D)ata 
R)egister (or some variation thereof). Something to the effect that the 
original machine storage unit (words) effectively held two pointers, 
accessed as address and data...

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