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

[Greg Ewing]

Pascal Costanza wrote:

> In Common Lisp, you can have:
> 
> (paint circle :on canvas :at point)
> 
> Given that you have defined paint as follows:
> 
> (defun paint (&key on at)
>    ...)


Python still goes one better, because (for user-defined
methods at least) you can supply arguments by keyword even
if they *haven't* been declared that way!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg