> Yes, taxpayers fund science, but commenting, beautifying and documenting code is not what a physicist/mathematician/climate researcher wants to spend his time

> Yes, taxpayers fund science, but commenting, beautifying and documenting code is not what a physicist/mathematician/climate researcher wants to spend his time. Usually you want to be doing research Hunting down all the right citations, putting results in good prose, formatting the paper to the standard of where you are trying to get it published, responding to peer reviews (as silly as they can get), doing peer reviews for others... all things that are not "doing research" (strictly speaking) and to some are not enjoyable. But they have to be done anyway, it's a quality standard that has to be met, everyone suffers for it and everyone benefits from it. It's just that the scientific community has let itself set really lousy standards for code sharing. It should be rectified.