C v C++ v C# v Java

I here a lot of people saying that they are all the same language. And most of those people saying that C#/Java is better because they have the latest OOP library ______ to do.... whatever. But quick question. If they're all the same language, why was C first... by over a decade?

C - good for learning programming basics and for writing things that absolutely have to run everywhere and/or as fast as possible.

C++ - good for actually writing something useful IF you don't know any better languages.

C#/Java - good for actually writing something useful that people want to use without spending months coding and debugging.

Lower level languages give more control or whatever, which is good in theory, but at a certain point in your life you just want to fucking get something thrown together that functions without wasting the rest of your life working on it.

Sort of the same reason people generally prefer windows to linux.