I've just read "The Low Quality of Scientific Code", which claims that code written by scientists comes out worse than it would if "software engineers" were involved. I've been working, for more than a decade, in an environment dominated by people with a background in math or physics who often have sparse knowledge of "software engineering". Invariably, the biggest messes are made by the minority of people who do define themselves as programmers. I will confess to having made at least a couple o...