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Re:Python Is Eating the World by pjc50 on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:01AM (#20673435)
There are plenty of real world situations where neither the requirements nor the prerequisites value correctness, but getting an 80% or even 99% correct set of results while flagging the unhandled cases is very valuable.

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by hombre_fatal on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:32AM (#20673580)
I'd say the most immediate value/payoff of correctness is ensuring your own code is consistent with what you think it does rather than correct wrt to some sort of external specification.
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