> I almost stopped reading at the difference between "89" and 89 being something bad that risks making your program crash. I can only commend you for not takin

> I almost stopped reading at the difference between "89" and 89 being something bad that risks making your program crash. I can only commend you for not taking a few minutes to consider whether it was worth continuing when the essay starts with praising postel's law, possibly the worst idea in the field since "let me just run that code I received over a socket".