‘ve finished reading “Coders at work” a series of interviews between

@peterseibel and well-known programmers/coders/(etc). The first edition was in 2009. And in the preface you can read:

Yet despite the millions of people who have written code, and the billions, if not trillions of lines of code written since the field began, it still often feels like we’re still making it up as we go along. People still argue about what programming is: mathematics or engineering? Craft, art, or science? We
certainly argue—often with great vehemence—about the best way to do it: the Internet overflows with blog articles and forum postings about this or that way of writing code. And bookstores are chock-a-block with books about new programming languages, new methodologies, new ways of
thinking about the task of programming.

Coders at Work – Page IX

The years continue passing and people that remains the same are argue about that. Without a conclusion. We will continue creating rivers of ink on the subject