A programmer who does no outside reading on his profession will be ill-equipped to do research when the need arises I do outside reading, but I would be hard-p

A programmer who does no outside reading on his profession will be ill-equipped to do research when the need arises I do outside reading, but I would be hard-pressed to make this claim. How is outside reading correlated to research ability? This is like saying, "If programmers are not playing a musical instrument outside of work, then it is obvious they do not have what it takes to think in patterns and perfect their skills."