Time to run my horrifying python code that builds a bash script that I use to repeatedly call some fortran code and make output I pull back into python for calculating telescope pointings.

My deepest apologies to everyone here who actually has training in making good software. I'm doing science!

(And no, I'm not looking for advice. Hilariously, this dumpster fire of code works well enough, and I don't need to improve it right now.)

@sundogplanets
"β€œThe evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” These insightful words were spoken by Marc Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar"πŸ™‚
More seriously, a great deal of research software has been written this way, as at Bell Labs long ago.
However, sometimes such software was wanted by others... in which case, sometimes software engineers would get asked for help.