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Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia
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Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

by Tom Kwong
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
532 pages
13h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Safety

"Safety—the condition of being safe from undergoing or causing hurt, injury, or loss."
– Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Applications are expected to function correctly. When an application malfunctions, there could be undesired consequences and some of those could be fatal. Consider a mission-critical rocket-launch subsystem used by NASA. A single defect could cause the launch to be delayed; or, in the worst-case scenario, it could cause the rocket to explode in mid-air.

Programming languages are designed to allow flexibility but at the same time provide safety features so software engineers can make fewer mistakes. For example, the compiler's static type checking ensures that the correct types are passed to functions that expect those ...

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