Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Paul F. Dietz]

Pascal Costanza wrote:

> David Eppstein wrote:

>> It's only been out, what, twenty years? And another twenty before that 
>> for other lisps... How much time do you think you need?
> 
> 
> AFAIK, Lisp was very popular in the 70's and 80's, but not so in the 
> 90's. At the moment, Common Lisp is attracting a new generation of 
> programmers.

Early lisp usage was driven by government money and the AI bubble.
That declined in the late 1980s or in the 1990s.  Individuals could
not afford adequate hardware to run lisp until sometime in the 1990s.

But now, hardware has more than caught up with the demands of
lisp and individuals are carrying it forward.  This is something
that drives the newer languages also.  The cycle time for
improving the languages or their implementations goes down
as the hardware gets faster.

	Paul