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Because it's probably the least artistic endevour you can imagine. You're 100% governed by rules. Programmers and artists are polar opposites on the temperament

• Mezzie 5y ago
  Disagree, as somebody who is both. (Albeit not AMAZING at either). Lots of art forms/media involve rules or creative restrictions. Off the top of my head at 10:30 in the morning, I can think of: - Sonnets/villanelles/other form restricted written art, particularly once we get down into things like syllabic stress and rhyming restrictions; - Music is full of rules and math that musicians learn before they can break them. Tempo, meter, octaves, etc. - In the visual arts, you have medium restrictions. You can only sculpt marble once; you had best make sure you know what you're doing. When working in watercolor, you need to have your shadows/highlights/entire composition planned out because you need to avoid/layer properly. There's also color theory, composition rules, etc. The best artists often make these invisible, just like the best programs (from a user perspective) 'just work' and users have no idea what restraints/rules went into them. It's just that instead of getting an error message, writing a shitty musical composition hurts your ears. Also we see more of the shitty art than the shitty code.
  • Grustaf 5y ago
    I'm not saying there aren't rules in literature, poetry, painting or whatever. But can you imagine any temperaments more different than that of the typical programmer, and that of the typical artist? I started out as a mathematician and always felt mathematicians to be painfully square and rigid, but they are veritable poets compared to the typical programmer