What makes a "good" programming language? What are the criteria we should be using to judge what, in general, makes one language "better" than another? Better can only be judged in context--some languages will be particularly suited for specific people (based on background, personal styles and aptitudes), and for specific applications. Too many specialized features may make it more difficult to learn and understand a language without making the language substantially more useful. The consistency of the language features has a great impact on understandability: similar features should behave in similar ways in all contexts (minimize the user's need to memorize feature-dependent syntax and structure. The clarity and applicability of control
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