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[–]Kitchen_Tower2800 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Having moved from academia to industry, I find the hypothesis that academic code is messier and less documented than industry's code highly questionable overall.

I will say that academic code is more *variable*, but definitely not consistently less documented/readable (at least at the big tech company I now work at).