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The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake.

The article addresses the question of what ought to count as the most expensive mistake in the history of information technology and computer science. An argument is presented that it should be the use of NUL-terminated text strings in the C program language, Unix operating system and Posix software...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 9; pp. 42 - 45
Main Author: KAMP, POUL-HENNING
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2011
Subjects:
Scientific errors
Cost accounting
Computer programming
History of science
Computer science
Information technology
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