> We all know what the quality of academic code reputation is.
do 'we'?
considering a huge amount of common numerical software (esp with any kind of fortran lineage whatsoever) is based in some way on netlib.org code that itself was heavily developed in the BSD UNIX on Vax+ARPANET era within the academic/research community, I'm not really sure that, based on this comment, 'we' do..
We all know what the quality of academic code reputation is.