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by semiinfinitely 236 days ago
this looks like a post from 2007 im shocked at the date
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I saw Gary posted his blog link on twitter, and I really like his article. I really didn't expect it to surface up at this moment (2025), and it's referred from a google blog. :shrug:
And "I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965" is from 2009.

Hopefully by 2045 these ideas will have gotten a little more traction.

Me too. Aren't we already doing this? This is the basic I have been taught first.