You make a good point. There&#x27;s lots of accomplished musicians who never learn to read. And some &quot;full-stack&quot; musicians like yourself who start with tabs or similar, and who come to writing earlier than reading. I think several of the Beatles never bothered to learn western notation.<p>My analogy has some problems. Still, I think it&#x27;s interesting to consider the real possibility of a future where code-reading is a mainstream skill, and where writing is considered a specialisation. And where code writing is done with the expectation of serving the reader.<p>I&#x27;ve started to mess with figured bass recently. I have an old ukulele and am seeing if I can fit some lute songs to it, and get used to taking my finger patterns from those marks. Kind of a step up from tabs.