Scientific code is often about solving ill-defined problems, working interactively and refining the work along the way. This is a different job than developing

Scientific code is often about solving ill-defined problems, working interactively and refining the work along the way. This is a different job than developing an application for end-users. I am quite confident that, most of the time, scientific code is pretty bad. But I am also pretty sure that even in industry code is not so good anyway. My worst experiences with scientific code was less the quick and dirty approach than on-purpose obfuscation and ego-coders who are more concerned by impressing others than writing simple and effective code.