Wolf Rider said:

>>well, unfortunately (for some) software RnD is like that... oh, if only this was a perfect world and all a programmer had to do was to pour a whole lot of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks into a hopper and then go around to the side and wind the "Make My programm" handle - churning out the perfect bug free program.
Wouldn't that be just peachy? <<

Indeedy.

But no-one has suggested that, however hard you try to mince their words in your happy hopper.

Equally, programming may be art as well as science, but what about project management, scheduling, work-flow, and knowing-what-the-heck-you-and-your-programmers-are-doing-even-that-quiet-bloke-in-the-corner..?

This forum always has a number of people telling everyone else how difficult it is to code a flight-sim, and bow their head in reverential silence, but people manage it. They also manage the project, the alpha-beta-release-candidate testing, the localisation and publishing etc etc

Above all, the successful ones manage their customers to a greater or lesser extent.

How you manage things when things go wrong is also telling.

I suggest you flesh out your peach a little more.

Ben