Why do people use

/prog/ramming languages other than C, LISP, and PERL for anything?

Personally, I find if quite denigrating to the craft of /prog/ramming.

C++ can do most of what C can do and more, and it's one of the more versatile languages (whereas Java uses a similar OOP model to C++, but it makes OOP the ONLY way to do things). And most of the benefits of C can be achieved by using C-style code in C++ anyways. Pure C makes sense for writing OSes and programming embedded system, but for making normal applications C++ seems much more suitable.