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

[Greg Ewing]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> if you have to fully parenthesize the above cases,
> you can't really claim with honesty that you have infix-notation (in
> some technical way it might be true, but it's not what the infix
> notation lovers MEAN;-).


Well, APL users seem to be happy with doing everything
right-to-left, come what may...

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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