Often, especially with languages in the statistics, maths and scientific computing fields, you're only writing code for yourself and maybe 1 or 2 others. Every

Often, especially with languages in the statistics, maths and scientific computing fields, you're only writing code for yourself and maybe 1 or 2 others. Everything you write is throwaway, or just functions that can be called and maintainability takes a second seat to ease of use for non-programmers writing code.