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

[Anders J. Munch]

"Erik Max Francis" <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
> Evidently, Chaitin's usage of the term was non-standard; some Google
> research reveals that m-expressions are _not_ simply
> s-expressions-without-unambiguous-parentheses:
> 
> http://www.not-compatible.org/LISP/QA/mexpr.html
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EmExpressions

Thanks, esp. the Wiki has got the goods.  Including a link to
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/lisp.html
where McCarthys tells the history of LISP.  A fascinating read - like
when they invented garbage collection because they didn't have enough
spare bits for reference counting in the IBM 704 machine word ;)

on-a-64-bit-machine-would-McCarthy-have-invented-Python-instead?-ly y'rs,
Anders