> Other people are saying that researchers tend to write code that just works at a bare minimum... That isn't specific to people with PhDs. Every programmer w

> Other people are saying that researchers tend to write code that just works at a bare minimum... That isn't specific to people with PhDs. Every programmer without job experience does that. Back when I worked on a Unix/C application for a company that hired new grads it was common to have code checked in without any error checking at all. If the person is reasonably intelligent (and everyone who finishes a PhD is pretty intelligent) it takes all of about two weeks to break them of the homework coding style.