the truth

C/C++ if you care about performance
Java- if you need online applications or don't mind a performance trade-off for more ease
Python-For everything else
The rest is a waste of time
Programming is not supposed to be pretty, its not supposed to be more math like and its not supposed to satisfy your every anally retentive needs.
Its there to get stuff done.

>>5
Look, the whole problem here is that you only see programming as something you do while being paid and sitting in a cubicle. It doesn't have to be like that all.

And even then, by your argument we would still be using Cobol, Fortran and, indeed, LISP (in all caps). If it weren't for the search of new methods and forms, the languages that are now widely used in industry wouldn't even have been invented, and you can't tell me that it wasn't at least partially driven by aesthetics.

``Rugged and industrial'' soviet looking stuff like C++ or Lenovo laptops have an aesthetic as well, even if it is one made to appeal neckbeards that reject the notion altogether in an attempt to be manly.