From: fateman@cs.berkeley.edu   
      
   On 12/6/2017 2:14 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:   
   > So I assumed it is working on some version of sympy somewhere   
      
   We call this "demo-ware".   
   The result of an undergraduate term project is often demo-ware.   
   This means it works when the author shows it off.   
      
   The result of a senior thesis project usually works at a higher   
   level.  It works when someone else tries it out.  After the   
   senior graduates, it often ceases to work. To revive such   
   projects, one of my colleagues claims he typically has to   
   totally rewrite it.   
      
   Typically a masters' project works for a few months, then falls   
   victim to bit-rot.   
      
   A program that is the result of a PhD in CS typically has a longer lifespan.   
      
   Though I have heard that computer programs associated with   
   PhDs in physics may be more like demo-ware. That is, they   
   work only to produce the results needed for the PhD, and only   
   in the presence of the author.   
      
   A GSOC project may be anywhere on this spectrum, but my   
   guess is it is on the low end.   
      
   RJF   
      
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