Perl, Lisp, Haskell, Prolog etc.
I was there when Perl ruled the world, I used it myself to rule the world. The scene was always managers going to the C++/Java teams and asking them an estimate to a get a project done. They would often come back with timeline spanning 1 - 3 years.
Perl teams would get it done in like a week.
Needless to say most non-Perl programmers wanted Perl gone for this one reason alone. Too powerful, people who know how to use it make too much progress compared to everyone else. Smaller teams making larger progress shrinking the head counts, which top bosses didn't like.
Programming world is a sea of mediocrity, good things mostly don't make it here.