Brilliant article and a subject close to my heart.

I started as a Zoologist, nearly changed my degree to literature in the second year, changed to Biometry after graduating, and met Statistics and computing.

Now I work as a computer consultant – but I have run a poetry group since ’91 and have published poetry since ’73.
I even wrote a poem in Algol ’68 once.

Writing software isn’t like playing the piano, it is like composing.
perhaps playing jazz piano is like programming with high level tools…

Yes, be both.

Dave

I feel the same way. I believe in other mediums (Internet, cellular technology) it’s even easier to embrace both humanities and technology (Ftrain.com does this well), but it’s also easier to become lost in it all.

If it were possible, I’d spend my days in the park with friends, typing away on a wireless connection. The crossover will come, sometime.

I am of the same crowd, divided between software and arts.
My choice is similar, I do professional software development,
consulting and management leaving visual arts and photography
to the leasure hours.

My take is that the more computers penetrate the arts,
the more people be aware of the software "soft" side.
Computer literacy will make everyone a "programmer" to a degree.
We half-bloods will benefit from it, through ability to understand
the other side.