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

[Kenny Tilton]

Brian Quinlan wrote:
> Kenny Tilton wrote:
> 
>>documentation available at a keystroke, and apropos to search for
>>stuff you suspect is in the language
> 
> 
> Python has several nice help tools. Try typing "help()" at an
> interactive shell. 

great. btw, i did not mean my list to be /in contrast/ with any other 
language, just why i find it approachable.

> 
> 
>>   true garbage collection (I am /not/ looking forward to reference
>>counting or the hoops one has to jump thru to handle cyclic refs)
> 
> 
> Python does not require any such hoops. Python uses a generational
> garbage collector to deal with circular references.

oops. i committed the sin so often committed against Lisp, viz, Living 
in the past. my bad.

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