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> make things possible, often just to run it once This is the largest difference. When there's no expectation of code lasting beyond a very short lifespan, why

by jghn 5y ago

> make things possible, often just to run it once This is the largest difference. When there's no expectation of code lasting beyond a very short lifespan, why go through the effort to future proof things, improve maintainability, have better ergonomics, etc?

bogwog 5y ago
Because science doesn't work unless experimental results are reproducible.
- jghn 5y ago
  Sure. And once you land on something worth keeping, you clean it up then. But between time point 0 and then, a whole lot of code gets written to be run very few times.