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Judging a Language

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Languages are evaluated by criteria — readability, writability, reliability among the leaders — grounded in characteristics like simplicity, orthogonality, adequate data types, and self-descriptive syntax design.

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A department choosing its teaching language weighs how it reads before how it runs.

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Criteria rank languages for a task, not in general.