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"he attempted to correct a code analysing weather-station data from Mexico."

This annoys me, and it is everywhere. It indicates the writer has no idea what they're writing about and presumes that it's not a process but a matter of getting the right answer. "Hold on a sec, let me get out my Little Orphan Annie's Secret Decoder Ring."

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The biggest howler I saw was "The SSI unites trained software developers with scientists to help them add new lines to existing codes, allowing them to tackle extra tasks without the programs turning into monsters."

Ah, well - we /do/ come from different worlds. My initial reaction to the word "codes" is to look for the "plz send me the" somewhere before it.

That said, at least (some kinds of) EEs seem to have it better - the basic Spice simulator was released under a permissive license a really long time ago, and there are people like Fabio Somenzi who make available things like CUDD (it's also used commercially.) Mind you, these have a significant overlap with CS, where the culture is different. I would be very happy to see a good open-source EM field solver, for example.

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