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

Michal Kaukic mike at frcatel.fri.utc.sk
Fri Nov 8 10:23:54 EST 2002 
> Hi,
> 
> Python comes with a set of really usefull libraries, so you can do many 
> interesting things easily.  For many people this more than compensates for 
> its slow execution time (compared to compiled common lisp).  Open-source 
> libraries for common lisp are rare.  Scheme doesn't even define how a 
> "library" should look like.
> 
> A second reason for Python's popularity might be that the Python community 
> is particularly friendly towards beginners.
> 

It seems to me that Lush (http://lush.sourceforge.net) has the potential to be really useful. 
And, the developers mention "bindings to the JavaVM API and to the Python C API"
(as I can see, this is yet not here, but things are rapidly changing in CVS everyday).
The symbiosis of Lisp and Python can be very interesting...


                                                    Mike

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Michal Kaukic                                  (mike at frcatel.fri.utc.sk)         
Dept. of Math. Methods, Fac. of Manag. & Informatics
University of Zilina,   Slovak Republic
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