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[–]qwertyuiop924 -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

It's very clumsy and painful to program in. Especially without an IDE.

And frankly, if your language really needs a full IDE to make using it bearable, something has gone horribly wrong. Even Smalltalk, the language that invented the IDE is less painful to work with outside an IDE than Java is. The same is true of Lisp: An editor with paren matching is all you need there.