Why aren't web frameworks simple, elegant and fun like programming languages? [on hold]

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Published on 2013-10-13T06:50:14Z Indexed on 2013/10/17 16:23 UTC
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When I think of pretty much any programming language - like C, C++, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Python, ActionScript, Haskell, Lua, Lisp, Java, etc - I'm like awesome I would love to develop a computer application using any of those languages.

But when I think of web frameworks(I do mostly PHP) - like Cake, CI, Symfony, Laravel, Zend, Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, Rails, Django, etc - I'm like god no.

Why aren't there web frameworks that provide me with simple, fun and powerful constructs like a programming language?

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