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Agreed. Composing music is a thoughtful process with review and iteration until a final release candidate (song) is made. The author may be coming from a place
by nemo44x 8y ago
Agreed. Composing music is a thoughtful process with review and iteration until a final release candidate (song) is made.
The author may be coming from a place where they don’t compose music but rather play existing music. Their analogy works I guess but I agree programming is more like composition.
Many song writers compose music but do not perform the songs.
- jacobobryant 8y agoYes, my experience is mainly just performing. I haven't done any composition. Maybe if I had, I would've come up with some different analogies. I think the analogy to playing music still works, though. You iterate on a piece by practicing it repeatedly, "adding features" (improving technique), "fixing bugs" (smoothing out passages where you often make mistakes), "polishing the code" (intonation, ornamentation etc). That being said, maybe I should've picked a different title--the analogy to musicians was a source of inspiration for me but isn't really the meat of the idea, I think.