Are compilers a scam as well?
There exists a program every problem you have, you just have to find the code.
There exists a program every problem you have, you just have to find the code.
That proposition is that of general programming languages.
The compiler's proposition is that it will take your programs and faithfully per the language specification produce object code suited for its intended deployment platform.
So
> Are [general purpose programming languages] a scam as well?
Well, kinda. Most languages come with a hype brigade and before you know it, darling of the day is "the only rational choice" for writing. Also, many b.s. about solving problem x whereas they only hand the problem over to something else, sometimes the programmer. So (mildly) yeah.
It took more than 40 years to realize that was never going to be.
There's a joke about that in commit strip:
https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...
There's a period of maybe a couple of decades at the start of the 20th century where Whitehead and Russell have used logic to prove that 1 + 1 = 2, and it seems like maybe all of mathematics can be placed on a firm foundation, and then Gödel shows that oops, no, actually a logical system can't prove some true things, or, it can contradict itself. No firm foundations for us.
I meant to say "one single ruling programming language to solve every Turing programming problem".
For example Java will be the ultimate ruling programming language, having a CPU that would directly run java byte code.
Nope.