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> reasoning about null is trivial in comparison So trivial that its creator called it the "billion dollar mistake" and if I had $1 for every NPE I saw in produ
by islon 6y ago
> reasoning about null is trivial in comparison
So trivial that its creator called it the "billion dollar mistake" and if I had $1 for every NPE I saw in production I'd be a rich man.
- username90 6y agoWhen you have a hammer everything looks like a nail. A language theorist trying to fix issues will of course look at changing the language first, doesn't mean he is right.
- aw1621107 6y agoWhat, then, might be a better solution than making nullability explicit in the type system?