Programming isn’t really a science, not because it is art, but because for a discipline to be a science it needs to be based on empirical evidence and “formal s

Programming isn’t really a science, not because it is art, but because for a discipline to be a science it needs to be based on empirical evidence and “formal sciences” like math and computer science don’t pass the test. Programming isn’t art either, not because you can’t do art via programming, of course you can, art happens whenever human hands are involved in the production process, my point being that we’ve romanticized programming for too long and it’s unhealthy. Programming has more to do with engineering and plumbing than it does with sciences and art.