I'm definitely not saying it doesn't require dedication and brainpower and (in the right places) formal methods. But the overall creative process, and most especially the end product (and the aesthetics) of what we produce are about as far from a musical symphony ... as anything you could think of.
There's a good Steve Jobs quote about this, which I couldn't easily find, but which completely nails this distinction. Something along the lines of: "No - we're not here to build something that that people will look at in a museum hundreds of years for now. Very little of what we do will last for more than 10 years or so. It's about meeting people's needs in the here and now."
(Or to that that effect; I am horribly mangling the original).
That's not the point I'm making. Symphony as in complexity of the overall problem and synchronicity of so many moving parts (ie. so many instruments, multiple melody lines working w/ a far more advanced ruleset).
It's a very different thing to bust out a bunch of features for a consumer product w/ relatively minor concerns relating to load/perf and something that operates at bleeding edge scale and complexity.
Then the software industry isn't for you.
I'm definitely not saying it doesn't require dedication and brainpower and (in the right places) formal methods. But the overall creative process, and most especially the end product (and the aesthetics) of what we produce are about as far from a musical symphony ... as anything you could think of.
There's a good Steve Jobs quote about this, which I couldn't easily find, but which completely nails this distinction. Something along the lines of: "No - we're not here to build something that that people will look at in a museum hundreds of years for now. Very little of what we do will last for more than 10 years or so. It's about meeting people's needs in the here and now."
(Or to that that effect; I am horribly mangling the original).