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Re:What's Great about Julia? by canjobear on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:24PM (#33903306)
> If you, say, use python, you better triple check that no dict is getting mutated under the hood when you pass it into a function, etc.

That's a bug in your code, not in Python.

The Julia correctness issues are things like basic math functions, called in simple normal ways, returning wrong numbers.

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Re:What's Great about Julia? by staticfloat on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:40PM (#33903425)
> The Julia correctness issues are things like basic math functions, called in simple normal ways, returning wrong numbers.

If you have an example of this, I'd be interested in tracking it down. I didn't see this in Yuri's blog post, nor am I aware of any egregious examples of this right now.

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Re:What's Great about Julia? by canjobear on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:02PM (#33903998)
I was thinking of the first example he links, with the Dirichlet density.
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Re:What's Great about Julia? by celrod on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:31PM (#33904174)
That is a closed issue from a Julia package. I'm sure I could go to popular packages from any language and find bug reports.
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