As a lisp programmer at home, python programmer at work: >I strongly believe python got so popular because of its very simple to read, almost pseudo-code like

As a lisp programmer at home, python programmer at work: >I strongly believe python got so popular because of its very simple to read, almost pseudo-code like syntax that anyone could learn. Agreed. And python programmers are asymptomatically approaching Lisp's features. I had previously thought that only Lisp dialects could do symbolic differentiation and integration on code written in the same language, but I was wrong. http://www.sympy.org/en/index.html http://www.sympy.org/en/index.html > List had great ideas, everything is a list, but dealing with parens hell makes me think it could be a lot more elegant. Lisp is already the most elegant. In John McCarthy's 1958 paper, he wrote a Lisp interpreter in Lisp, and the interpreter was only a page or two. That is elegance.