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

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Carl Banks fed this fish to the penguins on Sunday 10 November 2002 
07:01 pm:

> 
> 
> 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.
>
        May just be that the physical storage unit looked like:

        [car|cdr]

so drawing a diagram of a Lisp structure tended to generate:

        [car|cdr]->[car|cdr]->...[car|null]
         |          |             |
         V          V             V
        [...|null] [...|null]    [...|null]

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