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		praptak on May 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Ode to Deluxe Paint (2023) The crappy 16-bit-legacy memory model of the PC was probably as costly as "the billion dollar mistake" with Java pointer semantics.

insom on May 21, 2024 [–]

Wasn't Hoare's "billion dollar mistake" back in Algol? We'd been suffering with it for 30 years before Java decided to include it.

ska on May 21, 2024 | [–]

1965 according to a quote on his page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare

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