> My recollection of discussions on forums when it was starting to gain mindshare were arguments largely about the aesthetics of the syntax. I remember dynamic

> My recollection of discussions on forums when it was starting to gain mindshare were arguments largely about the aesthetics of the syntax. I remember dynamic languages people picking up on three things in particular: Python apparently being designed to be inherently inefficient, not having proper garbage collection, and having weird scoping. At least Python was something to point people at who rejected Lisp as an alternative to Tcl and Perl for scientific computing.