[coldcode]

It's not a terrible language; it just requires a little different thinking. In 1988/89, I learned to write a postscript generator with no dev environment, just reams of paper. Debugging was hard since you had to add debugging print statements in the same document you were printing, which was hard if no printing occurred! I read Adobe Illustrator files, which were the precursor to PDF, so at least I had something to look at.