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Haha that's a great analogy. I'm going to use that when someone gives me that BS line that code is documentation.
by edmcnulty101 4y ago
Haha that's a great analogy. I'm going to use that when someone gives me that BS line that code is documentation.
- dwringer 4y agoLots of music is performed first, and only later transcribed (often from a recording). In all cases, a music performance contains more data than sheet music (although there's no guarantee that the performer played their sheet music accurately to the page, if they had any). However, in many cases it's much more productive to learn a song by listening to a recording. Paul McCartney famously didn't use sheet music at all. I guess sheet music is like documentation, but just like documentation it's often incomplete, wrong, confusing, misleading, or worse than nothing at all. Sometimes it's the only ground truth we have, such as with classical music where we can't know what the composer truly had in mind, so in cases like that I'd say the sheet music is effectively the source code.