That's dismaying -- not at all surprising, unfortunately, but I understand your frustration. The upside-down incentives in the academic world are such that eve

That's dismaying -- not at all surprising, unfortunately, but I understand your frustration. The upside-down incentives in the academic world are such that even somebody who ought to know better fails to produce useable software because there's no payoff. Actually, it's worse than that -- producing software other people can use means you might be giving a leg up to the competition, so there's an incetive to produce software that appears to work but is in fact useless.