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

[Jay O'Connor]

In article <uso37rcegqdpf6 at corp.supernews.com>, "Cameron Laird"
<claird at lairds.com> wrote:

> In article <20021108.115059.1034949299.9010 at cybermesa.com>, Jay O'Connor
> <joconnor at cybermesa.com> wrote:
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>>Yes, I was a Python advocate in a TCL shop for awhile and had a hard
>>time convincing
>>people that there was a qualitative difference between.
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>>set x [lindex [lindex $var 5] 5]
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>>and
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>>x = var[5][5]
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> Tcl has definite problems that are close to what this example expresses.
>  Somebody's tilting the idiomatic playing field, though; the experienced
> Tcl-ers I know would write
>   set x $var(5,5)
> rather than deal with the monstrosity above.

Unfortunately the code I was dealing with was using lists of lists of
lists nested many, many levels deep with no documentation in the code as
to why '5' was a particular field.

Try hundreds to thousands of lines of 'the monstrosity above' 

-- 
Jay O'Connor
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