On 2009-07-23 23:51:02 -0400, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> said:
On Jul 23, 5:52 pm, Rui Maciel <rui.mac...@gmail.com> wrote:
fft1976 wrote:
How do you explain that something as inferior as Python beat Lisp in
the market place despite starting 40 years later.
Probably due to similar reasons that lead php to become remotely relevant
.
Well, the only reason PHP became relevant because it was an
easy
^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^ (emphasis added)
to
deploy solution in a single application domain, the web, that happened
to explode.
i.e., Python "beat" lisp because it is ~70% of lisp in a form that is
much more palatable to the average programmer, just as php became
popular because it is powerful enough to do websites and, most
importantly, apprehensible to mediocre programmers and even some
non-programmers.
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