Programming like making music

This morning, while I was driving to work, a think was made in my mind. In this days I'm learning how to play classic guitar, and I was think: what kind of difference there are between make music and make software?. I think that there is no difference. If you compare music with programming, there are 7 notes (DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA,SI) for making music while in computer programming we are a set of principal statements (IF,LOOPS,TYPES,ASSIGNMENTS)  for making software. If you make music you need a musical instrument (guitar, violin,ecc..) and a sequence of notes (for a predeterminated execution time). If you make software you need a good programming language as instrument (C#,VB.NET,JavaScript,ecc..) and make a sequence (in certain case a very long sequence :-)  ) of statements.

If you think to create software in this way (like music) I think that you can create a very good software in any kind of enviroment and language.

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