You could argue programming really took off in the 80s, and look at the plethora of languages then that are obsolete. Medicine and physics are more than 100 years old; programming is very new in the grand scheme of things and rapidly changing as it "finds itself." It's not very convincing to assert it has "time-tested foundations."

You mean the various kinds of semantics ? in that case yes, otherwise if it's for framework of the day, stack of the day it's hard to reason and compare anything.