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A lot of research depends on software written by researchers and yet writing software is not really supported or incentivised by academia. Organizations like th
by mattsouth 10y ago
A lot of research depends on software written by researchers and yet writing software is not really supported or incentivised by academia. Organizations like the software sustainability institute in the UK (http://software.ac.uk http://software.ac.uk) are lobbying to change this, with some success, but I guess it takes a long time to effect cultural change.
- bottled_poe 10y agoEngineering is just implementation details. That has no relevance in academia. /s
- jpolitz 10y agoSee also Artifact Evaluation, a process used in several PL/SE conferences that makes evaluation of code (and datasets/studies) an explicit step in the review process: http://evaluate.inf.usi.ch/artifacts http://evaluate.inf.usi.ch/artifacts http://www.artifact-eval.org/ http://www.artifact-eval.org/
- mattsouth 10y agoHey thanks - I hadnt seen those before. Good stuff.