Stupid question...

But me and my friend were having a friendly argument and found this board and thought that maybe you guys could settle this debate for us: What is the difference between an algorithm and a programming language? I've always thought that programming languages solve algorithms, but my friend thinks programming languages construct algorithms. So yeah, which is it?

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To answer this properly would take too much time, so Im just gonna ask you this; why would you think that algorithms are something to be solved?