Rich Hickey created the Clojure programming language and he has the same background as you. In school, he focused on music, and his creative energy was directed

Rich Hickey created the Clojure programming language and he has the same background as you. In school, he focused on music, and his creative energy was directed at music composition. There is a mountain of anecdotal evidence suggesting a link between the type of mind that creates music and the type of mind that creates software. After school Hickey got a job at a music studio, and it was there that he first encountered computers. See here: http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/rich-hickey/ http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/rich-hickey/ Fogus: What drew you to programming? Hickey: I was running a recording studio and got a computer for it. I was intrigued by what it could do—this was in the relatively early days of MIDI—and filled with the possibilities of what it might do. So I taught myself C and assembly language and started writing music software. I was immediately hooked.