[dahart]

Programming languages are a lot easier to grasp. ;)

The oldest programming languages are only 50 years old, whereas the oldest music notation is at least 4000 years old.

Most programming lanuguages haven't crossed any spoken languages, but modern music notation & terminology has been heavily developed by countries all over Asia and Europe.

This is a big reason why musical notation seems so weird at first, especially to engineers, because it is a legacy that comes from a different time, a different context, in a different language. The people who developed musical notation had different math, different logic and different musical motivations than we have now.

Think about this for a while and it starts to feel like a miracle that musical notation works at all, not to mention how well it works.

Programming languages were developed by people nearer to us in every way, and made to be logical and simple, so it makes sense that they're easier to grasp quickly.