At 11:06 21.02.2001 +0100, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
>[...] Especially when you're actively playing improvised music (I've been
>playing rock guitar and jazz trombone) it's a fantastic feeling when you 
>get into the 'flow' of the music. And it's the same feeling that I get 
>when I'm in the 'flow' of some programming task. The programming is just 
>happening, it's not something that I simply do but something in which I 
>play a part.  [...]

BTW, Mihaliy Csikszentmihaliy's "Flow -- the Psychology of Optimal 
Experience", (ISBN 0-06-092043-2 for Harper's paperback edition) is a 
rather nice book on that topic.

Cheers,
Helge