> With a painting you are getting compared to every other painting, with a program you are compared to other programs for the same task. Usually you are compar

> With a painting you are getting compared to every other painting, with a program you are compared to other programs for the same task. Usually you are compared to other paintings done with the same technique and/or style. No one is going to compare your impressionist watercolors with abstract geometric acrylic painting. So in a way it's the same. There are categories both in painting and in software development.