It's a General Purpose language, not a "generic" language that's a particular kind of thing, depending on how much you've been exposed to you may never have see

It's a General Purpose language, not a "generic" language that's a particular kind of thing, depending on how much you've been exposed to you may never have seen any programming languages which aren't general purpose because, tragically, we seem as an industry to have decided we all want a single tool - we want to buy a chainsaw and then use that to cut everything, toenails, steak, trees, the tags in new clothes, everything gets the chainsaw treatment because apparently we don't like learning new things. Special Purpose languages are very narrow, they solve one problem and they solve it really well, but if you have a different problem then too bad. I think we should use these much, much more often, and we should have many more of them, but we don't and for the foreseeable future we won't. Because a Special Purpose language only solves a narrow problem it often gets to sidestep lots of horrible Computer Science problems which arise for general purpose languages. To revisit our chainsaw analogy, while using a chainsaw to cut the tags out of your new shirt has lots of opportunities for truly life altering (or ending) accidents, if we use instead a tool that's purpose made the potential accidents are trivial. Oh no, I slipped while using the tag removal tool and... didn't remove the tag. Better try again.