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Re:Why Astronomers Love Python [video] by stevedonovan on Monday September 04, 2017 @09:31AM (#15168092)
I had to collaborate with some distinguished middle-aged scientists, and Fortran is what they spoke. And given how 'terrible' the code was, I developed great respect for their intellect - how they were able to get such results out of their tangles. (The moral of that story is: do not keep your intellectual property only in code)

'terrible' is the word we use, but they were not professional programmers (and had zero interest in the craft) So fit-for-purpose maybe, 'unstructured' but not 'terrible'.

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