Jonathan Blow

This is not a problem of the programming language, but of the style and size of the program and project. All the other things you mention are there to organize source, not to actually do anything related to the purpose of what that source is trying to implement.

This is easily shown to be false by the fact that there are programming languages that don't need any of these things.

Like, what exactly do you mean by "organize source"? Is not a complex program already a very organized and heavily regimented thing? Why do you need 3 other programming languages to organize something?

None of the other 3 are "required". You can use them to more easily organize source modules to make sure they can be properly built when they have dependencies - that's assuming your code is organized like that.

A makefile is essentially a batch processing tool. There is nothing to stop you from manually typing its contents out. This is a moot argument, like arguing why the compiler batch compiles all functions in a source file instead of each individual one separately.