About 15 years ago I was curious about the number of programmers I met who were also musicians. I wish I could remember fully the article I read at the time but

About 15 years ago I was curious about the number of programmers I met who were also musicians. I wish I could remember fully the article I read at the time but IBM had a formal recruiting strategy for musicians sometime around the 50's-60's. The company recognized a relationship between musical and programming ability. I'm going to speculate that it has something to do with musical composition being akin to software design. Paul Hudak is another noteworthy person in the field who pursues music and makes it part of his research. His book "The Haskell School of Expression" teaches aspects of Haskell using music composition. As an aside, he also was involved in a new program at Yale called "Computing and the Arts" which looks like a heck of a program for developers with artistic leanings.