I think some of it back then was there was less internet communication and Tcl could be popular one place and Python was popular in another place and Perl popul

I think some of it back then was there was less internet communication and Tcl could be popular one place and Python was popular in another place and Perl popular in another team. Now we discuss everything so much communities converge on a common choice. Perl & Tcl really share the issue that undisciplined developers could make really obfuscated code that was hard to decipher.