"This longing for architectural coherence leads to comparisons of code with music, which is often described as the most mathematical of the arts. There is, in fact, an anecdotal but fairly generalized belief among American programmers that there is a high correlation between coding and music-making, that many coders are musicians."

saved this article back in 2014 and just rediscovered it in my old evernote account

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/09/05/the-beauty-of-code/