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

[Greg Ewing]

Brian Quinlan wrote:

> Holger wrote:
> 
>>How does the introduction of 'yield' break old code?
> 
> Because someone, somewhere was almost certainly using yield as an
> identifier.


Hey, I'm that person! I used yield as a method
name in early versions of Plex.

I'm not complaining -- I was quite happy to change
it. Just offering evidence that this sort of breakage
does actually happen, and isn't just a theoretical
possibility.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg