What makes a good programming language?

There are many different programming languages. If there was one programming language that worked best in every case and everybody agreed on, there wouldn't be so many. There is just no end all-be all programming language (yet). Though python comes close.

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The variety of programming languages is not explained by the variety of niches. You're an ignorant child.

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Perl is the best language ever. There is nothing Perl cannot do.
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>>4
use FIOC;

Now everybody is happy?

Perl is PHP for people over 40. PHP is Perl for people under 20.

What makes a good car? There are many different care. If there was one car that worked best in every case and everybody agreed on, there wouldn't be so many. There is just no end all-be all car (yet). Though the 2007 Subaru Impreza STi Spec. C comes close.

>>6
PHP is Perl

Whoooooaaaaaaa, hold on there, pal. That's some wizard-class trolling you've got there. Please be more careful where you point that thing.

You dont get something for nothing with programming languages. C and C++ are very close to the speed of assembly language simply because they are so bare bones and do nothing to protect the programmer. Every feature that you could add to C and C++ like bounds checking, stronger typing, garbage collection, costs something. People have chosen languages like Java and C# for languages that are safe but still reasonably fast. I wish that they would have chosen languages like Ada and Pascal/Delphi instead which are compiled languages instead of VM languages.

Then you have languages like Lips, Prolog, APL which are more dedicated to solving complex problems rather than doing things as fast as possible. It takes longer for the average person to learn these languages because the human brain is accustomed to doing things in sequence and changing values at will which fits the way a computer thinks in machine language. So scripting languages will always be the easiest way for people to deal with simple tasks in the simplest and easiest way possible.

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>>Perl is PHP for people over 40. PHP is Perl for people under 20.

I think what was meant was that Perl was the only game in town 20 years ago (not counting crap shell languages) and the only people who still use it are people who had to learn it 20 years ago

Hmm, Lips. Nice.

Good programmers make a good programming language.

>>8
It's adorable how people will try to defend Perl. It's a clusterfuck of a language, whether you like it or not. The only difference with PHP is a generation of entrenchment.

well for one PHP is being used by mostly shitty web develpers and second, i dont think you can write usefull scripts with it.

perl = PHP + python just alot less gay and more bloat.

>>13
Sounds like someone has an axe to grind. Perl is a good language unlike PHP, whether you like it or not.

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