I wholeheartedly disagree. There are bad programming languages. Brainfuck is a good example. I don't mean that as a joke, but only as proof that programming

I wholeheartedly disagree. There are bad programming languages. Brainfuck is a good example. I don't mean that as a joke, but only as proof that programming languages can be objectively bad. As an extension of that I'd say that languages can be bad because of their constituent parts (syntax, semantics, constructs, features or lack of, etc..). Some languages have constituent parts that I'd say are objectively bad. I'll argue all day that Objective-C's handling of nil is stupid beyond belief. Nil/Null itself is bad enough...