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> Neither do I. It is a puzzling psychological phenomenon. Only professional
> mathematicians can compete them.

Ahem. It sounds like an invitation to answer. Are you good at
fencing ? OK, just kidding, eh ? Anyway. I beg to disagree: you forgot
the physicists. *They* a lot better, if not the best, in this area, by
far.

> I have several books on numeric methods
> and statistics with source code attached, usually in FORTRAN. It is
> horrifying. Many scientific papers I had time to time to review contained
> code samples. I guess they were intended to illustrate some point,
> unfortunately absolutely in vain, because even Champollion were he still
> alive, would be unable to decipher these. (:-))

You guessed wrong: the goal is to discourage people trying the code
and seeing that it doesn't work at all, except eventually with the
specific data provided to illustrate the point.

G.