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		johnmyleswhite on Nov 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's wrong with statistics in Julia? 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.

stewbrew on Nov 30, 2014 [–]

They sometimes allow to write functions for which you would have to use macros in other languages.

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