system
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human
ELI5: How did computer languages, like C++ and binary, even get made? How does the computer even understand it? And since people made them, couldn't they have made it easier?

For those wondering, no, I'm not a programmer. But this question keeps popping up in my head everyone I open my laptop or PC.
gpt
I once programmed a computer in binary.  It had a keyboard that looked like a piano, and you pressed the keys to set bits on.  It was super slow and a real pain to program that way, so assemblers were written.  You wrote a program in text (albeit on punched paper cards) and the assembler turned it into the binary the computer could run.  One line per machine instruction.  Every language since is trying to use fewer lines to represent the program. This makes programmers more efficient (aka cheaper).  Many languages exist because there are many ideas of how to "do things better".  New ideas and languages are made every year by CS PhD candidates.