If it's true that computation is just an extension of two "traditional" legs of science, then it follows that the steps taken in computation as part of scientif

If it's true that computation is just an extension of two "traditional" legs of science, then it follows that the steps taken in computation as part of scientific research ought to be as public as the steps taken in theory and traditional experimentation. That is, opening up the source code and data to peer review and scrutiny becomes just as important as describing methods in a non-computational study. In other words, computational transparency is important if computation is just an extension of the traditional scientific method.