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1. maskli+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-08-22 17:52:40
The billion dollar mistake was made in 1965 but the term was coined in 2009, defined as the following:

> I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

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