About a year ago, I started working on a big comparison study between a bunch of scientific algorithms. Many of these have open-source software available, and I wanted to evaluate them with a large variety of input signals. The problem is, this is scientific code, i.e. the worst code imaginable. Things this code has done to my computer: it crashed, throwing an error, and shutting down nicely it crashed with a segfault, taking the owning process with it it crashed, leaving temporary files lyin...
