[arandr0x]

the analogy with "listen to music" is not "read the code" it's "use the program" but definitely composing and playing don't use at all the same skills as programming. For example it's easy for me to see where a bug is but when I compose music, I hear something sounds wrong, I don't know if it's "un-harmonious wrong" or "interesting wrong" and a piece of music doesn't "work" for me the same on 1st listen, 3rd listen, etc... whereas a program is by essence repeatable. And as a result I don't really attempt to "fix" wrong music if I feel I went wrong with an idea I just make a new one. Whereas with code I was debugging from the start, even when I was new and unconfident.