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:: We disagree, and that's very helpful and productive – it generates additional Rosetta versions, illustrating different approaches, and in, this case even generates an additional comparison-pair (unknowingly and briefly broken yesterday) between the JavaScript draft and one of the Python versions.
:: Another constructive use of disagreement is stimulus to research and statistical analysis.
:: On the question of reliability, code defects and the attendant waste of human time (rather than machine time), you may find it interesting to read the statistical analysis in ''A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github'' (UC Davis, Ray et al.2014) which finds Python to be one of a small number of languages which are unusually defect-prone.
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