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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Well, ummm, not really. Can't find it in CPAN either...

root@ops2:~# Can't locate FIOC.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /Library/Perl/Updates/5.10.0 /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.10.0 /Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.10.0 /Network/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.10.0 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.10.0 .).