Scientific programming is a perfect storm of extremely smart people, with strong abilities to do it themselves, distain for the subject matter, and no direct ex

Scientific programming is a perfect storm of extremely smart people, with strong abilities to do it themselves, distain for the subject matter, and no direct experience with the price of failing to write portable code. In some circumstances, even parameterizing scripts so that they aren't re-edited with new values for every experiment is an uphill fight, never mind having promotion through environments.