Tiny correction: he called it his billion dollar mistake, because he invented likely the first…

In fact, Tony Hoare called the creation of Null Pointers as the Billion Dollar Mistake. The lack of memory safety is responsible for a lot of bugs and security vulnerabilities in applica…
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Tiny correction: he called it his billion dollar mistake, because he invented likely the first "modern" null pointer.
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