> is our inability as a community to once and for all define a solid foundation for the principles of computing Is this possible? If code is a social construct

> is our inability as a community to once and for all define a solid foundation for the principles of computing Is this possible? If code is a social construction as you say, then wouldn't it be impossible to arrive at this point unless society remains unchanging? > Hence all the hacked together languages, tools and frameworks that people have piled on each other over the decades. This hints at the what is IMO the real problem, software is hard to replace with confidence. Sure, it's easy to swap one version for another, but doing so with the full understanding of what will change...is basically impossible for any non-toy project today. And there are exceptions to this, but they're the "exception that proves the rule" type.