Is Mozart or Beethoven a Better Computer Programmer?

I know what you’re thinking. Mozart and Beethoven were composers, not computer programmers. That being said, they both had very different compositional styles. Mozart was a classical composer, while Beethoven had a foot in both the classical and romantic eras. Is one style better than the other for programming? Let’s find out!

Personal Styles

Regardless of their genre and eras that they were composing in, Mozart and Beethoven each had a different way that they composed music. Beethoven went through many revisions of every piece, while Mozart often had full orchestrations in his head, complete and ready to be written down. As a programmer (and also sometimes musician), I relate to Beethoven in this respect. Beethoven is a master at debugging, trying to find the best ways to put things together and good at making sure that every note has a purpose. Mozart is, for a lack of better term, superhuman. Mozart writes everything perfect the first time, with a strong focus on melody as the purpose. One is better at delivering a finished product that works well, while the other is good at selling it. Programmers are human, so we often act as Beethoven would, revising our code until it make sense and has as few bugs as possible.

Classical vs Romanticism