Eli5: How is electronic music written down?

Question

My friend’s dad was telling me that with classical music, rock, or any other type of music, you can write down tabs and notes etc, but electronic music can’t be written on “paper”. So I am curious, how do you keep a note on how it’s supposed to go? I hope this makes some sense, I have very limited knowledge of music.

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It’s not that electronic music can’t be written down, it just isn’t. There’s no real point because the music is generated and played by a computer.