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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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.