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"Thank you, Mark Pilgrim". (Unless you already knew it ten years ago. Back when he wrote "Everything you thought you knew about strings is wrong." it was quite
by ableal 13y ago
"Thank you, Mark Pilgrim".
(Unless you already knew it ten years ago. Back when he wrote "Everything you thought you knew about strings is wrong." it was quite true of most every programmer, and it was thanks to this piece and similar ones, by Spolsky and others, that the information got spread around.
There must be some phrase for this opposite of the "self fulfilling prophecy": the cautionary phrase that causes itself to become false in the future ;-)
- ygra 13y agoAs for me, I found Spolsky's article lacking, too. But lurking for years on the Unicode ML is probably not something most people do. You learn a lot there, though.