This is in line with Naur's "programming as theory building" essay [1]. Is the system "alive" or "dead"? The system is alive if the programmers that are mainta

This is in line with Naur's "programming as theory building" essay [1]. Is the system "alive" or "dead"? The system is alive if the programmers that are maintaining it have the theory of the system in their heads, and can use it to inform change, and can teach that theory to others. The system being alive is not a property of the system in isolation but a property of the relationship between the system and the programmers who work on it. [1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf