Real Programmers Don’t Write Research Software

Mike Lynch — eResearch Australasia 2022

• Mike Lynch - m.lynch@sydney.edu.au
• Sydney Informatics Hub
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• Blog post version of the talk
• PowerPoint slides
• PDF Version

Links and references

pipefail

• How a missing shell option slowed Cloudflare down

Environments

• conda
• renv

Static analysis

• black — The uncompromising code formatter for Python
• flake8 — Python linter and style guide enforcer
• styler — Non-invasive pretty printing of R code
• lintr — static code analysis for R
• pre-commit — a framework for managing multi-language pre-commit hooks

Git

• What’s Wrong with Git? A Conceptual Design Analysis S. Perez De Rosso and D. Jackson. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming & Software (Onward! 2013)

Confusion and disgust

• The Programmer’s Brain Felienne Hermans (Manning, 2021)

Community

• RSE AU/NZ — Research Software Engineering
• NumPy Newcomers Hour