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by pjmlp 942 days ago
Not really, Python is where many Lisp folks went when it started to win attention around 20 years ago in research.

CERN and Fermilab were adopting Python for Grid Computing (aka Cloud nowadays), already in 2003.

MIT changed SICP from Scheme to Python back in 2006, thus news generations started playing with Python.

Peter Norvig called Python an acceptable Lisp around 2010, in HN. Having written Python for Lisp programmers in 2000.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803351

https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html

What bums me out, is the lack of JIT in the box (yes I know there are some alternatives).