Dr. Dotnetsky alive and well in Phoenix, and Programmers as Musicians. . .

We've noticed a conspicuous absence of the revered Dr. Dexter Dotnetsky on eggheadcafe.com over the last couple of months. However, I recently got an email from him with the photo below attached. He says he is in Phoenix, working on a top - secret project, and will be back soon.


On another "Note", have you ever noticed the high percentage of programmers who are also accomplished musicians? Being a former semi-professional jazz musician myself (played bass with the Robert Hunt Trio in New York, played with the likes of David King, Jules Broussard, and Noel Jewkes in San Francisco, even played shakuhachi duets with Schawkie Roth in Mill Valley) I find this particularly interesting.

Surely the inventors of C# were musicians, no? (the key has seven sharps)... I think it has to do with brain chemistry myself. Particularly jazz musicians. What do you think?

throw new InvalidOperationException("Cannot restart Brain that is already in motion.");

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  1. Anonymous11:27 AM

    my personal theory is that such subjects as music, mathematics, linguistics, and even computer programming are all part of the same general mental discipline - master one, and chances are you can master the others

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  2. Anonymous8:07 AM

    Go along with the languages/programming generalisation. Based on aptitude I should have studied English, French and German for my A-levels (16-18yrs exams) but opted for Maths, Physics & Chem instead for job prospects... Eventually ended up in Programming 10 years later.

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  3. Anonymous4:29 PM

    Very interesting correlation. As a musician of various styles including jazz, I have to agree that is does exist.

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  4. Anonymous8:11 AM

    Surely the inventors of C# were musicians - maybe not ... the Italian for the '#' symbol is 'canceletto' ... little GATE !

    Bill ?

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