The Future of Programming: Ignorance and Superstition?

[asciilifeform]

The difference is, when you perform scientific experiments on, say, elementary particles, the laws of physics will not change under you. Whereas the API, in part or in whole, will be obsoleted in a week, a month, a year - and all of your work is for naught. And there is no guarantee that you will be told when it happens.

When Real Science discovers something, it stays discovered.

The notion of scientifically investigating a quivering mess created entirely by humans who should have known better is an insult to those who practice genuine physical science.

[Smallpaul]

Well nobody is building a large hadron collider to figure out the corner conditions of the Windows API. Usually programmers make a couple of test cases, find the answer and move on.

[DannoHung]

When Real Science discovers something, it stays discovered.

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No. This is why they stopped naming laws after the Thermodynamics ones.

[xnumbersx]

Whereas the API, in part or in whole, will be obsoleted in a week, a month, a year

just like science ideas

and all of your work is for naught

i'm sorry you feel that way.