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by _pmf_ 3215 days ago
> Very glad to see "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" included in this list [1]. I still struggle to always get this right.

In the real world, you'll constantly have to interact with external or internal systems that are based on the "wrong" concept, so implementing it "right" makes your system really awkward to work with.

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The same was true about Unicode text not too long ago. If we don't start trying to do things correctly, we will never get to a better place.