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- Eventually the only trivial program will be Hello World, and we have our own inaction to thank for how bad everything is.
- lecturer:Tony Hoare conference:QCon London 2009 topic:null reference in programming language design.
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- I recently worked for several years in a large C# code base where null was banned.
- In 1960, Sir Tony Hoare introduced the concept of "null" to programming.
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