According to David Beazley, it was lucky to already being around by the time scientific computing folks were in need for dynamic languages as wrappers to help w

According to David Beazley, it was lucky to already being around by the time scientific computing folks were in need for dynamic languages as wrappers to help with increasingly complex hardware and projects written in lower level languages, and the only other viable alternatives back then were Perl and tcl. Watch this talk: https://youtu.be/4RSht_aV7AU?si=d3rJvYJPFGcRy6BK https://youtu.be/4RSht_aV7AU?si=d3rJvYJPFGcRy6BK Then it just snowballed since that time.