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Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
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infoq.com
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ngaut
on Oct 8, 2019
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chmaynard
on Oct 21, 2019
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From the perspective of functional language design, I think the biggest mistake in Algol and C was actually data mutation. With scoping and shadowing (which C supports), data mutation is completely unnecessary.
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