Stop Treating Scientific Code Like an Afterthought: Record, Share and Value It
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gus_massa
2 months ago
Except in CS, the only important part of the papers is the pdf, so even the LaTeX code is horrible. Once major journals ask for nice source code, there will be nice source code.
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