> I've alway felt "billion dollar mistake" is unreasonably hyperbolic. I guess you can take that up with Turning Award winner C. A. R. Hoare FRS FREng. I'm go

> I've alway felt "billion dollar mistake" is unreasonably hyperbolic. I guess you can take that up with Turning Award winner C. A. R. Hoare FRS FREng. I'm going to go ahead and keep citing it despite being a epic underestimate. > But it wasn't so obvious at the time. It was, just not to the hackers that invented the languages plagued by these mistakes.