Re:OpenJDK mailing list: Null-safety and value types
by topspin on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:37PM
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> I've alway felt "billion dollar mistake" is unreasonably hyperbolic.
I guess you can take that up with Turning Award winner C. A. R. Hoare FRS FREng. I'm going to go ahead and keep citing it despite being a epic underestimate.
> But it wasn't so obvious at the time.
It was, just not to the hackers that invented the languages plagued by these mistakes.
I guess you can take that up with Turning Award winner C. A. R. Hoare FRS FREng. I'm going to go ahead and keep citing it despite being a epic underestimate.
> But it wasn't so obvious at the time.
It was, just not to the hackers that invented the languages plagued by these mistakes.