Which is why that “you can write Fortran in any language” is such an epithet.

Most horrific code I've ever seen was a VB6 project written by a mainframe programmer... I didn't even know VB6 could do some of the things he did... and wish I never did. Not to mention variables like a, b, c, d .. aa, ab...

Code written by scientists is a sight to behold.

and they think cause they're scientists they can just do it because they're scientists and stuff. Very pragmatic to be sure...but horrifying.