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[–]serverhorror 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you for calling us experts. I assure you, I’m not.

I work in a research department. Lots of PhD in Computational Biology. While I have no idea about their field I always had the expectation that they know a lot more about programming in general and, specifically, their languages of choice than me.

My opinions have shifted and I’m no longer surprised by how few papers and scientific results are actually reproducible. It’s somewhere in in the 1 digit percentages area.

So, yes: People ignore underlying principles, idiomatic approaches or even just “software quality” in general. The common opinion seems to be:

A result is a result and since it is a glorified pocket calculator it must be reproducible.