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> The Billion Dollar Mistake lives on. If you are referring to Tony Hoare, the “billion dollar mistake” was not the existence of nulls per se, but that all ref
by bazoom42 3y ago
> The Billion Dollar Mistake lives on.
If you are referring to Tony Hoare, the “billion dollar mistake” was not the existence of nulls per se, but that all references were nullable, with no support in the type system to distinguish between nullable and non-nullable references.