Why are there so many programming languages?And what prompts someone to create a programming languages in spite of the fact that other languages already exist?
Why are there so many programming languages? Why are new languages still being made?
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Programming languages evolveNew programming languages often learn from existing languages and add, remove and combine features in a new way. There is a few different paradigms like object oriented and functional and many modern languages try to mix features from them both.There is also new problems that needs to be solved, e.g. the increase of multi-core CPUs. The most common solution to that have been threads, but some programming languages try to solve the concurrency problem in a different way e.g. the Actor Model. See Erlang - Software for a Concurrent World