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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Python can use semicolons. It's nice when a newline always implies a semicolon, like in Python (except for tuples, because Gweedo is a moron). It's not when it sometimes does and sometimes doesn't, with no great consistency, like Javascript.

(He also forgot about Haskell, where newlines and indentation can substitute for curly braces and semicolons. I don't think he was providing an exhaustive list.)