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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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 9; pp. 42 - 45
Autor principal: KAMP, POUL-HENNING
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2011
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