Why do we have so many programming languages? What's the brilliant idea here?

Why do we have so many programming languages? What's the brilliant idea here?
Wouldn't software benefit greatly from all being written in a single multi-purpose language? The more I think about it the more retarded it seems to have so many languages.

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Different tools for different jobs. You could write anything you wanted in C but its more efficient to use a tool suited for your job.

Give it a century.

Everything should be written in the assembler for the architecture.

you're right user
you're absolute fucking right
this is stupid, lets make a new language
THE LANGUAGE
one multi-purpose language which will suit everybodys needs

>situation: there are 24 programming languages

i think sum people were playing with a language but then wen they snack time they put the language down and instead of play with it again when they come back they get a new toy

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>Different tools for different jobs
Excuse me? What kind of poorly suited analogy is this? Virtually all programming languages targets software which runs on the same class of hardware. Your little carpentry stunt here does nothing but cloud the issue.

>Wouldn't software benefit greatly from all being written in a single multi-purpose language?
There is java

Oh so you have read that xkcd strawman comic too? How very unique and interesting.

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