As a scientist, astronomer and professional software engineer, I have to say the grandparent is spot on. I've untangled a lot of really, really bad science cod

As a scientist, astronomer and professional software engineer, I have to say the grandparent is spot on. I've untangled a lot of really, really bad science code. I've seen the gamut too, having worked in high powered computing on many different models across many different fields. In general the code is just terrible, but it gets the job done. Just not efficiently or sometimes accurately (bugs abound).