Eli5 why are there so many computer languages?

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Why are there things like c++ and python when computers have to be programmed. Why does there need to be so many languages when one could solve it?

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Some languages were invented just to teach beginners (BASIC and Pascal). Some were made as improvements to an existing language (C++, C#, and so on). Some were made for an entirely different paradigm (lisp). And some were made just to troll (INTERCAL).

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