[asgraham]

What a wild thing to comment.

a) “professional” writ large often encompasses academic research, even though it’s also often specifically used in contrast. Language is weird like that. Former and current academics like to have a term for all the stuff we’ve been paid to do, and we usually default to “professional experience” (though current academics do usually say “research experience” because you’re right that professional has the default connotation of corporate employment).

b) the project seems to have been over 2000 lines of APL. That’s not the “small” student project you’re implying, in any language, and in APL that’s quite substantial.

[rak1507]

Most of it is boilerplate or written like it is Java, so it is pretty small compared to any real world projects.

To me professional implies production/real world/paid work, not just an unfinished academic project.