When I call a language fun, I generally mean: 1. It delights me by doing what I want. 2. It makes normally complex programming tasks easy (try metaprogramming

When I call a language fun, I generally mean: 1. It delights me by doing what I want. 2. It makes normally complex programming tasks easy (try metaprogramming in php). 3. It is simpler than I originally imagined. 1 & 2 generally means... it's a "hackable" language (ruby is another good example). 3 is icing.