Rick Faircloth: > I think you're right, Mark. > > Music, especially theory, is very logical and an lot > like programming...just a different medium. > > If you get into orchestral composition, it's quite OO. ;o)
I have a completely untested hunch that the language centers of the brain have more growth in musicians and programmers than in the general public. It seems like sheet music / music theory and coding / programming theory both are fundamentally about the interpretation of symbols, so it seems like language development would be the logical neurological link between them. Friend of mine is a hardware / networking guy, but doesn't do any programming because he says he just can't retain it. He also happens to have a tin-ear. ;) I think part of the difference there may also be the ability to visualize the model. In hardware / networking there are actual physical objects that connect together in a particular, specific way, but with programming (as with language), that's not the case. Like lines of code, words can be fit together in rather arbitrary and novel ways. So instead of having a solid mental model of a large system, what you have is lots of smaller mental models of an individual units in that system (a word or a component). Instead of having solid, well-known relationships between the units, their relationships are ambiguous and constantly open to interpretation or redefinition. Jazz anyone? ;) -- s. isaac dealey :: AutLabs Creating meaningful employment for people with Autism http://www.autlabs.com ph: 817.385.0301 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327622 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
