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decerian@lemmy.world 11 months agoWhy is that weirder? The people writing scientific software are, by and large, less good at writing software than people who only specialize in software development. I’d expect there to tons of terrible engineering practices in an old code base like that
PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
good question.
Because even trivial things like Fourier transforms (to people like me) are very difficult to understand. They took me years to understand. Non scientific software engineers do not understand those. It’s just a different course of education.
You’re also right about old code base as well. Algorithms like these belong in c++ (or C or fortran), and it’s extremely difficult to explain why to people who have no understanding of numerical computing.
It’s just different education.