Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
Code is quite often published to document algorithms, methods and formulæ for the purpose of scientific research. Since there is no universal language which suits everything and everyone, this is exactly what happens. One has to have the rudimentary knowledge to read half a dozen different languages to be able to read the code and extract the algorithms.
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