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Hell, even python is 24 years old now, it's not exactly a spring chicken in programming language terms... this observation rather supports the idea that Lisp is

• brudgers 11y ago
  One of the differences is that Lisp became relevant quickly at least in part because the digital universe was so much smaller and correspondingly so was the community of digerati. Python lived in relative obscurity throughout the 1990's and early oughts before becoming an overnight success. The same could be said for Ruby.
  • vram22 11y ago
    >Python lived in relative obscurity throughout the 1990's and early oughts before becoming an overnight success. I doubt Python became an overnight success. If so, it's more likely to have been the "I became an overnight success in 10 years" kind of overnight success. Python has been seeing steady growth in usage over many years. I'm also aware of the fact that it has come into the limelight somewhat more, a bit recently, but that does not take away the credit from the steady growth that happened before, and the community responsible for it - because these things do not happen by themselves or just due to hype.