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Why do we have so many programming languages?

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  "Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.”  -  Chris Pine As a tyro, we are curious about kenning's different programming languages and especially their syntax. But at each stage of learning, we come up with incipient doubts. When my professor introduced me to programming languages in my first introduction class, my doubts were "why do we have so many programming languages?", "Are all languages basically the same?" “Do all languages perform the same task?", “Why are new languages still being made?" and "What language should I learn and how many?"   1.          Why do we have so many programming languages? It’s similar to languages we speak or you can take the example of a spoon. We have different types and different sizes of spoon-like we use small size of a spoon to add sugar to tea and slightly bigger spoon to drink soup and a