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With respect, lispers are probably not the best people to ask how to make a widely adopted language.

Regardless, you’re regurgitating exactly what I said. Your gut is that Python was just a slightly better replacement for Perl. This is at best one dimension. If you can’t broaden your perspective, then this thread full of examples and arguments for why Python became popular will be lost on you.

If you’re so confident in your assessment, why did you bother to ask?



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