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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by wizzwizz4 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @10:42AM (#23212343)
They're worried that there isn't testing code to prove that it's correct. If it's proven correct in other ways, it doesn't need unit tests.

Yeah, the code's bad – so what? It wasn't written by programmers. Most simulation code is bad, but if it's been proven correct it doesn't need to be good.

From what I can tell, this is a matter of conflicting conventions in different fields meeting head-on.

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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by guygurari on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:37PM (#23215235)
To be clear, I am not arguing for or against the validity of the claims regarding covid-sim. I am only saying that this is not a good example of the effect where people feel entitled to get open source code that fits their needs.
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