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by piva00 2296 days ago
I recommend checking out Peter Naur's essay "Programming as Theory Building"[0] as it touches on the subject of a program being more than the code + documentation, it lives on its designers' and developers' heads, their intents, visions, etc.

[0] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf