> Why do people write libraries for these languages and not the Lisp ones?
1. They want their names to be widely recognized, so they find a popular bandwagon to hop onto.
2. Raw numbers? More people using Python means more people trying to make libraries for Python, means more libraries remaining in the race after you eliminate the crap from people who don't know how to write libraries.
Note that Python is, by now, an old language. It wasn't instantly popular, and you wouldn't have predicted it. In, say, 1999, you had to be some GNU/Linux person to even know what Python is. It was far from obvious that, of all things, it would get so popular. That Eric Raymond article in the Linux Journal around that time probably gave it a bit of a boost.
Python definitely rode on the coattails of increasing GNU/Linux popularity, too. More people using Linux started asking questions how to script this and that, and going "gack!" at shell or perl programming. It seems Python might appeal to survivors of VisualBasic shifting gears into GNU/Linux stuff.
1. They want their names to be widely recognized, so they find a popular bandwagon to hop onto.
2. Raw numbers? More people using Python means more people trying to make libraries for Python, means more libraries remaining in the race after you eliminate the crap from people who don't know how to write libraries.
Note that Python is, by now, an old language. It wasn't instantly popular, and you wouldn't have predicted it. In, say, 1999, you had to be some GNU/Linux person to even know what Python is. It was far from obvious that, of all things, it would get so popular. That Eric Raymond article in the Linux Journal around that time probably gave it a bit of a boost.
Python definitely rode on the coattails of increasing GNU/Linux popularity, too. More people using Linux started asking questions how to script this and that, and going "gack!" at shell or perl programming. It seems Python might appeal to survivors of VisualBasic shifting gears into GNU/Linux stuff.