Comment on The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011)parentComments−GnarfGnarf12yThat's exactly what I was thinking: a design based on a 16-bit length field would have been even more of a nightmare to migrate to 32, then 64 bits.Like what Churchill said about democracy: NUL-terminated is a terrible solution, but it beats whatever's in second place.
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That's exactly what I was thinking: a design based on a 16-bit length field would have been even more of a nightmare to migrate to 32, then 64 bits.
Like what Churchill said about democracy: NUL-terminated is a terrible solution, but it beats whatever's in second place.