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Billion dollar mistake
For those who don’t know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare
Huh, so Tony Hoare invented
null
and then Graydon Hoare invented Rust, ~~immediately terminating the existence ofnull
~~ which does not have a traditionalnull
value.