[7thaccount]

If the code is only a few pages, I would expect it to be rather easy to translate for most cases.

Mathematica is a rare exception as it is generally used in a much more functional programming esque approach than the imperative/OO style common elsewhere. I find pushing data to black box Mathematica functions to be very simple (and they have stuff for practically everything), but some very simple stuff eludes me due to the language model.

So I guess your point stands (especially if it's a large code base).

[nine_k]

Translation may involve translation errors.

There's value in running exactly the code which a researcher used in research to evaluate said research.

[7thaccount]

I understand you now and agree.