I've often wondered how much of this "Programming is like playing music" is true, and how much of it shit we make up to make ourselves look better. I mean, musicians are much cooler in the popular psyche than programmers.
I play a bit of guitar and I can think up of all sorts of seemingly valid comparisons, but I don't if they're just too general to draw any conclusions from. After all, many of these are just as applicable to something like photography (another thing that seems common amongst programmer types)
One thing I can say for sure is that true or not, you can use these musician/programmer analogies to impress girls, who'll start to think of you as the "creative type" many say they like ;)
I play a bit of guitar and I can think up of all sorts of seemingly valid comparisons, but I don't if they're just too general to draw any conclusions from. After all, many of these are just as applicable to something like photography (another thing that seems common amongst programmer types)
One thing I can say for sure is that true or not, you can use these musician/programmer analogies to impress girls, who'll start to think of you as the "creative type" many say they like ;)