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Are programmers likely to be musicians?

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Re: Are programmers likely to be musicians?

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It would not surprise me if there was a correlation between the two. I was a professional recording musician (saxophone) before I was a professional programmer. Writing music can be like programming, however I don't think playing a written piece is similar at all. Lots of electronic musicians are programmers however. Joel Zimmerman (Deadmau5) was a web developer who initially created a house track to ridicule that genre of music and then discovered he had a talent when the song became popular in Europe. He still writes code that creates his music.