At Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:05:18 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > Danny Lieberman wrote: > > > > > No arguments there - the best programmers I ever had the privilege to > > work with were either engineers or physicists - mostly physicists :-) > > In other words; a Computer Scientist is like a Musicologist - they > > perform theoretical study of the field and are equally likely to be > > proficient performing musicians or programmers > > > > However it may be instructive to compare professional musicians and > > professional programmers (btw many programmers play) > > > I think you're more right then most people (non programmers at least) > realize: Muslicology is a science (well, for some defintion of science > at least) while music is an art form. In the same way Computer Science > is a science while programming is an art form. >
Not to insult anyone, but I think physics is science and engineering is implenation is closer to the relation between CS and Programing then musicology is a science and music is art ;-) You need to be careful with too much creativity when programing if you want a chance for someone else to debug you program later, just as you would want the bridge to remain up no matter how creative the engineer wants to be while a song can stand on its head for all you care (although it may sound bad or try and convince you to eat dog food and worship the devil if you play it backwards). > Gilad > > > -- > Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Codefidence. A name you can trust(tm) > Web: http://codefidence.com | SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: +972.9.8650475 ext. 201 | Fax: +972.9.8850643 > > "I am Jack's Overwritten Stack Pointer" > -- Hackers Club, the movie > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
