On: Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014)

[tigershark]

If there are inexperienced programmers working on it, as in my preamble, then almost surely it is in whatever language that doesn't prohibit to mutate objects indiscriminately. In F#, Haskell and other languages that enforce immutability obviously it isn't a problem, in Python most surely it is.

[et1337 → tigershark]

Eh. Inexperienced programmers will find a way to screw things up somehow. Probably by over-engineering, like the original article describes.