why isn't python more popular?

[Andrew Kuchling]

sp00fd <sp00fdNOspSPAM at yahoo.com.invalid> writes:
> Is it that white space counts?  That's really the only gripe
> that I see.

Which stems from the overweening conservatism of most programmers, I
think, coupled with a tendency to fixate on trivial syntactic
features.  This is the primary reason why Lisp isn't more commonly
used, why Dylan will never catch on, why Modula-3 never caught on, why
functional programming will never become widespread, and why Python
takes endless grief over the indentation-based blocks.

Python isn't perfect by any means, and the Python Warts page documents
some *real* reasons to drop-kick Guido's butt, but few critics ever
make observations of that profundity; they don't look at the object
model or module system or implementation, but instead get hung up on a
minor detail of the tokenizer.  

Well, you *did* ask. :)

--amk