> to me it never stops feeling like an ongoing project when you try to live your entire life in it. and that's the fascinating thing about it. What the OP call

> to me it never stops feeling like an ongoing project when you try to live your entire life in it. and that's the fascinating thing about it. What the OP called a 'living program' Smalltalk people called 'human-computer symbiosis'. Software as a fully transparent, introspective, organic thing you can directly interact with and change even as it runs. There's actually very few software like it, and if anything philosophically more and more software tends towards the static unix "one tool one job" mantra.