[Extremo]

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Originally Posted by Finn Yes, because PAWN scripting and growing food are so similiar and easily affiliated from every point of view (...not). You have a very poor example there.

Well, I guess you look at it too closely. Much like computer graphics consist of primitives, however looking closer, a triangle really doesn't compare to a quad.

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Originally Posted by Finn If something goes wrong in your code, you see the mistake instantly and you're able to fix it right away, which makes the learning process a lot faster than in growing food where seeing the final product of your work might take months and fixing the mistake would take another few months.

Time is relative. It's an aspect we like to consider a measurement for arguements but it's pointless. Some things go fast, some slow, that doesn't change the arguement. If I drive a mile an hour to somewhere, or twenty miles an hour, I still reach my destination and at my destination I see something I can work with.

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Originally Posted by Finn The topic starter has a point, but I agree with Extremo that the ones paying for scripting just don't have the time for scripting and would rather pay some cheap idiot for scripting and spending hours of his free time for a few pennies. Paid scripters are comparable to whores, the paying side gets the good stuff and the other side gets a small amount of money and hurting butt.

Quite funny to read so harshly about paid scripters, while not far off their work is much like many professionals who work with tools they've been offered. Their toolrange may be wider in range but the point being is they still work with tools, much like farmers are cheap idiots who work their anus off to deliver their product to the overfed customer in the supermarket.

So you see, not all angles match, but if you look at it from a distant perspectives, the example matches well unless one is driven to examine everything closely. Since jobs such as programmers you really can't compare to any other job in full detail, which assumingly makes sense. It's almost like trying to find something to compare to a hammer and then wondering why it isn't a hammer.

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Additionally one may argue if programming is considered common sense. It is still one of the many jobs known as witchcraft to the many and describing something as primitive but fatal for human survival as growing food, one may relate better to how to grow food than how to handle memory management. So one may ponder if examples that are abstract but easy to follow may not brighten the answer a little.