Programming as an Art?

[snyx]

Gotta question here, me and my buddy were going over...

I said people can express them self through art in technology, but I can only see in visual ways (ie. photoshop, bryce, anything where the product is visually shown) He instead he can express himself through programming as an art? I mean, not to knock programming at all, I'm just saying do people think of it as more a profession, then an art? I mean, I know people who can do simply amazing things in photoshop, creating visual wonders. I can see how they are expressing themselves, their art, through visuals. But when I see a great piece of code put together, such as vbulletin, I personally don't see any true art in it, but as more of a skill.

I explained this quite bad at 2:30am, so please correct me, and lend your thoughts?

Myles.