> "it’s charming in a way that only academic software can be."

I remember experiencing this as an undergraduate CS student with a bioinformatics research position. At the time I felt like I was too stupid to understand the code.

After I struggled with that, the professor reassigned me to making their software available for web use and wanted me to take over some PHP shell_exec rollercoaster for handling job submissions.

Your NSF funds hard at work.