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the null concept being referred to as “the billion dollars mistake” - until discovering optionals and gradually opening up to FP, category theory, etc
by amorroxic 4y ago
the null concept being referred to as “the billion dollars mistake” - until discovering optionals and gradually opening up to FP, category theory, etc
- bazoom42 4y agoThe “billion dollar mistake” was not the null concept itself, it was having all reference types be nullable, i.e no distinction between nullable and non-nullable in the type system.