Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur
Future of Coding
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Revival of a Program
A dead program may continue to be used for execution in a computer and to produce useful results. Revival of a program is the rebuilding of its theory by a new programmer team. You can't use documentation or the source text as the means of transmission of the theory. And so if you want to learn the theory, you have to be with other people who are performing that act.
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