[warkdarrior]

> I guarantee that most of the low-quality research code is a result of a lack of discipline and experience in writing maintainable software.

Bingo! Most research code is written by graduate students who never had a job before, so they do not know how to write maintainable software. You are definitely the exception, as you held a software dev job before going back to school.

[f6v]

Some researchers from top-10 schools still publish python2 code in 2020. I don't have an explanation for that. It's not even a lack of experience, but something on another level.

[Symbiote]

Mathematics doesn't suddenly stop working because your interpreter is a bit old.