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

[Carl Banks]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>        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...


Which is kind of funny.  You'd expect the Data Register to point to
the nth item in the list, and Address Register to point to the next
cons cell.  But the reverse is true.


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CARL BANKS