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		adabsurdo on Oct 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tim Bray on Dennis Ritchie Yes, I would say it is the single worst idea to come out of C.

rudiger on Oct 13, 2011 [–]

I suspect that null-terminated byte strings are important in some non-trivial, non-obvious way.

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