[unishark]

> As someone who has been on both the research and industry software end, there’s really not that much difference. Requirements change, you build that into your plans. Frankly, a lot of best practice software development that gets totally ignored by academia (e.g. OOP) can handle this exact case, and makes things way more flexible.

I've done both, and OOP can also make things worse. Now instead of just doing the calculations in a straightforward procedural fashion anyone who knows the research can understand, you've added a layer of structure to obfuscate it, and that structure may be harder to change if you guessed wrongly about what will be consistent and what won't. Research by its nature needs to be more flexible and will be more unpredictable than industry development. It is far more common to have to go back and reexamine even your most basic assumptions.

Of course a lot of researchers are doing the same things as industry (what should be described as development and not be getting research funding), and are certainly doing a much more amateur job of it.

Grant fraud is penalized severely in the US by the way. You can even get a bounty for reporting someone.