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Wasn't Hoare's "billion dollar mistake" back in Algol? We'd been suffering with it for 30 years before Java decided to include it.
by insom 2y ago
Wasn't Hoare's "billion dollar mistake" back in Algol? We'd been suffering with it for 30 years before Java decided to include it.
- ska 2y ago1965 according to a quote on his page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare