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 <Quote1> Music is programming and that is why it analogizes so well to computer geekery. </Quote1> FWIW, I've been a musician since age 5 (variety of instruments, plus voice), and I found programming to be a very natural fit for me from the start. <Quote2> Drummers and bass players are semi-sentient vegetables. They don't program well. ;-) </Quote2> I hope I'm an exception - I went through a jazz bass phase in late high school. :) Kind Regards, Joe Chiusano Booz | Allen | Hamilton Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > > Drummers and bass players are semi-sentient vegetables. They > don't program well. ;-) > > Music is programming and that is why it analogizes > so well to computer geekery. History teaches analytical > skills for human contexts and that analogizes well to the > kinds of analysis one does when creating production-worthy > systems. Lawyers know where the money is. At the end > of the day, programming isn't that hard to learn and law > is. One sees many 12 year old kids programming > and few practicing law. > > Most of the spectacular failures of the computing > industry involved designers so absorbed in the depths of > set theory, turing machines, the perfect one pass > parse, who can write the fastest algorithm, and so on > that they forget that humans create, use and pay for > the information. The spectacular winning technologies > make it easier for them to do that even if it costs the > programmer some time in machine cycles or skateboarding. > > Powerpoint makes it easy to produce a decent looking > presentation. It can't make a dumb author smarter but > it won't make a smart audience dumber. It might bore > them but not as much as bad phrasing and a whiny or > monotone voice. > > XML makes life easier for programmers and harder for > humans. That is why it is a technology in search > of a human audience. It made the programmers feel > smarter and the user interface feel dumber. > > len > > From: Bob Wyman [mailto:bob@w...] > > 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> 
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