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availability of source CAN make a difference
In scientific fields analytical methods are a distinguishable field of study from numerical methods. ("Distinguishable", not "non-overlapping") One can learn analytical methods from lectures, books, and from working problems. One can learn numerical methods from lectures, books, and studying examples of fully-debugged source code. If a hide-the-source mentality had prevailed among all writers of scientific software from the beginning of scientific computing, learning and research would have been much harder and slower.
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