@weeble they all can do something better than some other language. some are definitely overall better than certain other ones though.

sometimes they fufill a specific niche. like, java programs don't have to be recompiled for every platform. erlang/elixir is good for highly concurrent tasks. c runs on everything so even though it's old it's used to bootstrap everything else to a new platform. basic, pascal are easy for beginners to. learn.