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Re:What's wrong with statistics in Julia? by johnmyleswhite on Saturday November 29, 2014 @06:34PM (#8675431)
I fully share that viewpoint, but there are many R users who believe that R's idiosyncratic evaluation rules are essential to writing "readable" code.
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Re:What's wrong with statistics in Julia? by stewbrew on Sunday November 30, 2014 @03:14AM (#8676343)
They sometimes allow to write functions for which you would have to use macros in other languages.
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