At least some of academia recognise and acknowledge the state of their "hacky, unpolished, poorly documented, unmaintained, and unsuitable for public use" code:

At least some of academia recognise and acknowledge the state of their "hacky, unpolished, poorly documented, unmaintained, and unsuitable for public use" code: http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/ http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/