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In article <TED.90Nov22143601@kythera.nmsu.edu>, ted@nmsu.edu (Ted
Dunning) writes:

|> given the above statement, i find it hard to imagine that mister
|> kuzniak has _ever_ worked on a commercial grade software product.  it
|> may be that he has been involved in some garage scale products, but
|> even this seems unlikely....

Well, I need not react to the tone of this posting. 
However, Ted Dunning completely missed the point. I am NOT saying that
there is no difference  between the work involved in writing commercial
software and that involved in writing software for more limited
purposes.  What I am saying is that the difference is no excuse for
sloppiness. You may not want to spend time on extensive user manuals and
menus, but if your program bombs, then you just haven't done your job
properly.  "It's only research software" is often accepted as an excuse,
and I find it ridiculous.
-- F.K.