[SciPy-User] peer review of scientific software

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Martin van Leeuwen
<vanleeuwen.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nice article. The frustration for students without a formal programming
> background such as a bachelor in computer science is as big as that for
> students and Profs that do have such a background, I think.

I found the article frustrating - it didn't seem to have much to add
to a general set of feelings (that most of us share) that writing code
properly is a good idea.

The question that always comes up is - why?   Most scientists trained
in the ad-hoc get-it-to-work model have a rather deep belief that this
model is more or less OK, and that doing all that version-control,
testing stuff is for programming types with lots of time on their
hands.  If we want to persuade those guys and gals, we have to come up
with something pretty compelling, and I don't think we have that yet.
I would love to see some really good data to show that we'd proceed
faster as scientists with more organized coding practice,

Cheers,

Matthew