It spent too long actually storing everything as strings internally. When tcl 8 was finally released in 1999, tcl already had a reputation, people have been wri

It spent too long actually storing everything as strings internally. When tcl 8 was finally released in 1999, tcl already had a reputation, people have been writing cgi-bin scripts in Perl for 6 years already and PHP was on the rise. Homoiconicity is cool, but cool doesn't necessarily mean useful.