Eli5: What is the difference between various programming languages? Dont they all do the same thing?
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They don’t all do the same thing. Some of them are custom-built for certain purposes (e.g. database management versus number-crunching).
Others are built especially to cater to certain environments, either a type of hardware or a particular software environment.
The difference between the remaining “general purpose” languages usually comes down to a difference of opinion about the best way to write programs. For example, some might favor an approach where you declare types beforehand in great detail; others might just let the compiler figure out the types at compile time.
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