This seems to come up pretty regularly; here's some random articles about it: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ https://

This seems to come up pretty regularly; here's some random articles about it: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-break-computer-systems https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-b... I blame the popularity of languages that encourage "stringly-typed" code; which means this problem is unfortunately unlikely to disappear anytime soon.