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RE: Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes yo udumb

• To: "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <clbullar@i...>, "'David Tolpin'" <dvd@d...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes yo udumb' story
• From: "Bob Wyman" <bob@w...>
• Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:49:51 -0500
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Claude L. Bullard wrote:
> The best grounding, IMO, for programming if nothing 
> else is provided is symbolic logic.  Otherwise, 
> history and music.
	I remember reading a research paper many years ago that
discussed this subject. The curious thing was that they claimed that
not all music was a good background for programming. The claim was
that people that played woodwinds and strings ended up being better at
coding then others. Percussionists were at the bottom of the list as
well as some of the brass instruments (including Tuba -- which was my
instrument...) An attempt was made in the paper to explain the
difference. The best explanation they could come up with was based on
the idea that the woodwinds, etc. had to deal with shorter notes and
thus had to have a deeper appreciation of the pattern, system or
complexity of the music than those who played instruments which
focused on longer notes. This paper was a long time ago, so don't ask
me for more details...

	Something that I've noticed over the years is that the
programming business has a lot of ex-lawyers in it. Many of the ones
that I've worked with have been among the best coders I've known...

		bob wyman

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