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What a great watch, thanks for sharing. I liked his metaphor of music and transcription to programming. Writing of music is not the main function of a musician in the way that writing programs is not main function of a programmer.

Nice!

However i fear his message is lost on the young'uns today (witness the comments in this thread :-). As he says in this interview, while the trivial/easy parts of programming have been automated (using IDEs/tools etc.) the hard parts will always remain and that is where thought and rigour are needed. This is where paper and pen/pencil reign supreme. They engage the whole mind and body to focus on one single task in a totally natural and free manner.

Mozart programming versus Beethoven programming