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• cheriot 4y ago
  > Null values, famously dubbed the billion dollar mistake. I want my money back Tony Hoare. s/Tony Hoare/Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson/
  • cryptonector 4y ago
    The idea of having the language force the programmer to check for all cases of an algebraic type had not been invented at the time. It's hard to blame them for the problem. I mean, yeah, they should have arrived at that solution, but it took a few more years of language research to hit upon it.
    • still_grokking 4y ago
      Go appeared 2009…
      • cryptonector 4y ago
        Haskell appeared much earlier.
        • still_grokking 4y ago
          Yes, exactly that's the point. But the parent wrote: > The idea of having the language force the programmer to check for all cases of an algebraic type had not been invented at the time.