> Basically, it is unfortunate that the standard academia is publishing papers (or pdf files) rather than publishing libraries. With this standard, the academic

> Basically, it is unfortunate that the standard academia is publishing papers (or pdf files) rather than publishing libraries. With this standard, the academics can't even readily use each others algorithms with this situation. I am not sure code should be the uniform standard for judging (computer) scientific work. It is much harder to review/validate a theory when it is supplied in the form of code than paper. Of course code can serve as an addendum to your work or may be useful as a demonstration of it. (Many academic authors do seem to do this)