It's certainly not exclusive to physicists. The syndrome is called "engineer disease," maybe just because engineers outnumber physicists. Garbage code isn't ex

It's certainly not exclusive to physicists. The syndrome is called "engineer disease," maybe just because engineers outnumber physicists. Garbage code isn't exclusive to physicists. The coders often complain when they have to deal with code from other coders. And physicists gonna code. The last nontrivial problem to be solved without computation was probably solved sometime in the 1930s. And the most powerful "physics software" is a coding stack. In my own case I've made a career long effort to learn good coding practices, but I don't expect my code to go straight into production. As for deriving evolution from particle physics, I don't think I've known a physicist who would recommend that.