I'm not down with your link between music and computer languages.
Music is performative while what makes success with computer languages is the ability to juggle abstractions at different levels of zoom. I don't see an overlap there other than the nominal "they are both langauges".
I think there's a disconnect in our statements. By music, you seem to refer to the artistic, creative, performance oriented activity. My reference, as I thought TFA was about, was to the notational aspect of written music. Listen to Bach if you want an example of "juggling abstractions at different levels of zoom".
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I'm not down with your link between music and computer languages.
Music is performative while what makes success with computer languages is the ability to juggle abstractions at different levels of zoom. I don't see an overlap there other than the nominal "they are both langauges".
I think there's a disconnect in our statements. By music, you seem to refer to the artistic, creative, performance oriented activity. My reference, as I thought TFA was about, was to the notational aspect of written music. Listen to Bach if you want an example of "juggling abstractions at different levels of zoom".