To me, it's a difference in professional gestalts(?) in highly trained individuals. Physical engineers, especially, have a very formalized, standardized way of

To me, it's a difference in professional gestalts(?) in highly trained individuals. Physical engineers, especially, have a very formalized, standardized way of looking at the world. They all share it, and so their code follows from that. Physicists, biologists, software developers all have different ways of looking at the world (some more standardized, some less). Our code follows from that. So while we may gripe they don't leverage (insert language arcana / convention), my intuition is our code would still look very different even if they did. Biggest example, as you point out: math-structured code, from math-heavy disciplines.