Merit is not exclusively a characteristic of art. Tools have merits, and awareness of those merits is very important for any practitioner who seeks to use those

Merit is not exclusively a characteristic of art. Tools have merits, and awareness of those merits is very important for any practitioner who seeks to use those tools in their work. If I went into my father's woodshop and sought to use his lathe to attempt to plane a board, he would rightfully yell at me. Merits of programming languages can be argued well, because there is an entire theoretical discipline dedicated to the understanding of programming languages (PLT). Your lack of knowledge of this field does not mean that it does not exist.