LUZZY on Nostr: Imagine if a programming book got so popular, everyone used its examples in real ...
Imagine if a programming book got so popular, everyone used its examples in real software.
And the examples created many problems related to null sequences in strings that still exist nowadays. In a way this is partially the reason why UTF-8 is the way it is.
To think that a humble example can cause so many problems...
Yes, the book is "The C Programming Language" by Ritchie and Kernighan.
Page 29.
#Linux #Unix #bsd
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