Tony Hoare / Historically Bad Ideas: "Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake"(lambda-the-ultimate.org)

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Tony Hoare / Historically Bad Ideas: "Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake"

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jacquesm17 yıl önce

This makes me wonder what really is the biggest mistake by a single individual in $ ?

shailesh17 yıl önce

Once I read a book on compilers, can't recollect the name, that quoted Niklaus Wirth. Basically, he said that the hardest part in designing a language is to decide on what is to be left out. That idea and Hoare's reflection, seem to confirm the hypotheses that most woes in human endeavor seem to stem from gratuitous - often in hindsight, omission or commission to something.