[Jensson]

Why didn't they use Scheme? That was pushed by a very prestigious institution so had some momentum in the education field. Instead they switched to Python and basically nobody uses Scheme to teach any longer. Python won because people preferred it over lisp, simple as that.

[detaro]

Teaching Scheme etc always got pushback from the outside, because regardless of how well it works for education, people get it in their head that you are teaching something that "industry doesn't use" and thus is bad.