On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 19, 7:33 pm, fft1976 <fft1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How do you explain that something as inferior as Python beat Lisp in > > the market place despite starting 40 years later. > > To be mainstream a language has to fit in most programmers' minds. Sometimes I wonder whether Python is not too complex for "most programmers", since "most programmers" use Java, which is heavily mainstream. Interesting whether it is in spite of the ridiculous limitations or because of these. Probably a mix of both. regards, Marek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
