I used to wonder why so many different programming languages and why so many opinions about them. After couple of decades i learnt about Domain Specific Lang

I used to wonder why so many different programming languages and why so many opinions about them. After couple of decades i learnt about Domain Specific Language (DSL) concept. I started out coding COBOL and some assembler after learning Pascal and others during education. I now code in python, c, c# or whatever us best fit. My opinion and experience suggests these are all DSL just as COBOL was probably one of the first. It is excellent for business logic and business transaction oriented data processing. Like all languages and tools the in output is mostly unreliable garbage in the hands of the ignorant and unskilled/ill-disciplined. I don't think the popularity of languages is as much to do with their technical merits add it is about the community that builds around each. Each community if like a tribe and the tribes have norms arising from their environment and common needs. My 2c.