Philip Armour has written on the topic in Five-orders-of-ignorance ~2000 [0], included in Laws of Software Process book [1]: -- Software is 5th form of ~life-i

Philip Armour has written on the topic in Five-orders-of-ignorance ~2000 [0], included in Laws of Software Process book [1]: -- Software is 5th form of ~life-invented knowledge-storing/representing-medium - the previous ones being DNA, brain, hardware, books. Which IMO, is exactly what it is. Whether its gigabytes of code or algorithm/structure written on napkin.. all the same. [0] https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-five-orders-of-ignorance/ https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-five-orders-of-ignorance/ [1] http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Software-Process-Production-Management/dp/0849314895/ http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Software-Process-Production-Manag...