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If you were writing bank app in COBOL on mainframe 24X7 for many decades, you would have probably found it intuitive, productive and high value as well. The problem is that for most people scripting is not their day to day job. It's something you do for may be a day after you write month worth of code. If your scripting language is ugly and unfriendly you will tend to forget it and basically have to re-learn it every time you try to use it. That's not a good or productive experience for people who are writing 10 lines of script after long intervals.