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

Kenny Tilton ktilton at nyc.rr.com
Wed Nov 20 22:59:42 EST 2002


Courageous wrote:
>>   C//> This little oft-repeated meme is exactly what has consigned
>>   C//> Common Lisp to the dust bin of programming history.
>>
>>No, I don't think so.
> 
> 
> Think all you like. Industry has spoken. Other languages = 10. Lisp = 0.
> 

True, but they spoke before: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, ...

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