Code can have aesthetic value, but I don't think it's like other art. I think the analogy between code and an art like painting is that painting is "expression-

Code can have aesthetic value, but I don't think it's like other art. I think the analogy between code and an art like painting is that painting is "expression-complete" in the same way that C is a Turing-complete language, whereas code is not. Code "as art" cannot really express fully everything than painting as an art can, but it can represent some aspects.