Eli5: What is the difference between various programming languages? Dont they all do the same thing?
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This question is kinda similar to asking why we have different communication languages, when they all do the same thing. We just do, and trying to convince everyone to switch to a single one will never work.
There are advantages and disadvantages to each depending on the exact circumstances you’re working under, but realistically speaking people just use whatever they have to because they’re building on top of something that’s already been written in a particular language and it’s easier to continue that than it is to rewrite the whole thing.
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