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A good comparison of major programming languages requires more effort than most people are willing to spend, experience in a wide range of application areas, a rigid maintenance of a detached and impartial point of view, and a sense of fairness. My view is that a general-purpose programming language must be all of those to serve its diverse set of users. The only thing a language cannot be and survive is a mere collection of neat features. It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles. I also think that exceptions are necessary for managing the complexity of error handling.