This is an area I want to get more into actually. I've done a bunch of freelancing for scientists, and it seems to me that there is now a wave of scientists hit

This is an area I want to get more into actually. I've done a bunch of freelancing for scientists, and it seems to me that there is now a wave of scientists hitting the code size and complexity level where understanding the principles of maintainable software architecture is become pretty important. One of the gigs was reverse-documenting some RCPP because they had been left with a ball-of-mud someone had to write in a hurry and no one knew how to break it up. It was interesting, and cool to help people doing real science. If you have any thoughts about the viability of teaching architecture to scientists, I'm all ears. You can find me on linked on or my user name plus the email of a behemoth starting with G... ;-)