“Every language was created for a specific purpose”

Question

I was reading the post Why Language is Important (Why I prefer C#) from \'Dot Net Thoughts\' and the first paragraph of the article ends with this statement:

Answer 1

Just my opinions:

C# - Microsoft wanted their own Java

Haskell - research of pure functional languages

Perl - text manipulation

Python - readable scripting language

Procedural languages - easy to compile for Von Neumann style architectures

LISP & Functional languages - help with bottom-up software design

Ruby - OO-Perl

Lua - Embeddable scripting language

C - Portable assembler

C++ - Portable assembler with objects

Emacs Lisp - Scheme or CL didn't have enough performance at that time

Pascal - Teaching programming. For some perverted reason people insisted using it for production software too.

Assembly languages - Writing machine language and resolving JMP addresses manually on paper is tedious. (I've tried it)

Power shell - replace BAT scripting

PHP - for making internets

Javascript - for making internets 2.0

APL - to make obfuscated coding contests obsolete