It's easy to get going on it, it's productive for writing scripts and experiments. It's dreadful for programming in the large, but only in comparison to languag

It's easy to get going on it, it's productive for writing scripts and experiments. It's dreadful for programming in the large, but only in comparison to languages designed to take account of the lessons learned about large code bases and team working. Most programmers have never encountered these and have very little idea of what they are missing.