He starts creating a new language based on complaints about 5 common languages. IMHO, he should start by understanding why so many people are fond of these 5 la

He starts creating a new language based on complaints about 5 common languages. IMHO, he should start by understanding why so many people are fond of these 5 languages and why they were so successful. Then, he should understand that people do not only have different tastes, but also different way of thinking that may imply different style of programming. A good language is often a compromise between different requirements. Personally, I start with bash for very trivial tasks. As soon as there is data to manipulate, I switch to perl. If program gets bigger and needs to be split into modules or classes, I switch to python (I am less fluent in ruby and go). Sometimes I switch to python earlier because of some libraries. If the program gets more bigger, needs to be maintained or suffers from slowness, I switch to java. My favorite language is perl, but I use the one that fits best.