Good post! I completely agree that programming is very creative. Fred Brooks said it really well in &quot;The Mythical Man-Month&quot; I think:<p><i>The delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of imagination. Yet the program construct, unlike the poet’s words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself.</i>