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Confusing, isn't it? Having to deal with several programming languages. Different programming languages have been created, because of insatisfaction with existing languages. Also, attempts have been made to make programming languages better every time. Also, some languages have been developed for specific purposes - for example, ActionScript was specifically developed to give programming capabilities to Flash animations. Some languages have been developed just for fun. For example, a language called brainf*** was deliberately made hard to understand - but the language is still "Turing-complete", which basically means that in theory, anything can be programmed with it.

Let me give a few examples. C++ evolved from C, adding object-oriented capabilities. But in the process, compatibility with C was retained; this was an important design goal. On the other hand, the developers of Java took many of the elements of C++, but eliminated certain aspects which they considered unsafe. Thus, Java is similar to C++, but it is not compatible - a program designed in C++ will not compile in Java.

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