> scientists code in the Literate Programming Paradigm I wish. In my career as a computational scientist I have never seen this in practice, either in academia

> scientists code in the Literate Programming Paradigm I wish. In my career as a computational scientist I have never seen this in practice, either in academia or industry. On unit testing, I half agree. Most unit tests get quickly thrown out as the code changes, so it's a depressing way to write research code. But tests absolutely help someone trying to run old code - they show what parts still work and how to use them.