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IF hip-hop OR rap THEN switch off, say software developers
More than 80 per cent of UK software developers like listening to music while they code, voting Coldplay as their number one band.
According to some Microsoft research, Coldplay’s Yellow is the number one tune for the nation’s coders, followed by tunes from bands U2, Oasis and Stereophonics.
At the other end of the scale, almost 30 per cent of those surveyed said rap or hip hop was the most off-putting music to code by.
Other annoying genres included country music (12 per cent), ambient music (9 per cent) and opera (8 per cent).
To help coders stay productive, HMV Digital has decided to use the research results to put together some playlists for developers. The tunes will be available soon at its online radio site here.
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