Music and coding

I felt quite identified with the reading, comparing programming languages to music genres. It's impossible or quite hard at least to be an expert in all programming languages, I mean, you may be developing some expertise concerning the various approaches such as object-oriented or declarative still. Personally, I believe that you have to know the whole scope before you can decide in focusing in one thing, that's why it's important to investigate about other programming languages, and better when you dive deep into something out of your comfort zone. 

All of these situations can be mirrored in music, there may be "n" number of musical instruments or genres, but you have to know what the tendencies and bases are. For example some people don't quite understand how can jazz and salsa be related but an exercise I sometimes do to my friends is play two different videos, one of a salsa band and another one of a big band of jazz, but in mute... you can start seeing similarities and after that I can explain them how in history jazz players moved into blues and into salsa in NY, not really a direct child but related. 

My other example stated previously about diving deep into a new programming language out of your comfort zone happened to me in music and in coding. In music I was never quite a fan of latin rhythms, I was 100% rock and heavier... but then university hit my life and I understood how important is for a man to know how to dance... then I took a leap and learned some dancing styles, I loved these, it was a 180° turn in rhythms, melodies, armonies... everything. This, happened when I started coding in C, at first I was intimidated by that language as the first course I studied was pretty advanced, but then, in advanced programming class I took a smoother approach to it and started loving it, how powerful the language can be. 

This last feeling is what I expect of every new language I learn (and music genre), a challenge that I'll fall in love with.

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