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

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "nandrats" == nandrats  <nandrats at mail.mdanderson.org> writes:

    nandrats> It's probably not very diplomatic to complain about it
    nandrats> as a newbie, but it is more intimidating than helping.

There are some mailing lists for python newbies:

  python-help at python.org (a.k.a. help at python.org): help desk. You can
  ask a group of knowledgeable volunteers questions about all your
  Python problems. See below for more info.

  tutor at python.org: for folks who want to ask questions regarding how
  to learn computer programming with the Python language. See below
  for more info.

See http://python.org/psa/MailingLists.html.

Also, if you use a properly configured mail reader that supports
splitting and threading, then all python-list mails will into a
python-list group and all the responses to this thread will be kept
together (and so are easy to ignore)

This is a very high traffic list.  You either need a mail reader that
can handle it (I use gnus in emacs) or you can read the list in
comp.lang.python with a threaded news reader.

John Hunter