This letter feels as though it is overlooking a large point of contention.
>The scientists who wrote this horrible code most probably had no training in software engineering, and no funding to hire software engineers
Shouldn't the argument be, that for research that is reliant on coding models, funding be allocated to experts that can assist in creating said models (software engineers)?
>The scientists who wrote this horrible code most probably had no training in software engineering, and no funding to hire software engineers
Shouldn't the argument be, that for research that is reliant on coding models, funding be allocated to experts that can assist in creating said models (software engineers)?