P.S. I disagree with you about the code. This was not intended to be production code for general use, it was in-house code developed on the fly to address immediate problems. I have also worked in the programming biz for many years, and there’s a huge difference between code intended for public release and code used by scientists to get a job done. The people who create these ad hoc programs are not trained in corporate style code documentation, and you can’t apply those kinds of standards to them.

It’s called quick and dirty programming, and the Internet (and much of the software you use every single day) was built on it. It says nothing at all about the accuracy or the efficacy of the code.