[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 8/15/10 13:53 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> injection attacks, the Y2K bug, programs that can't handle files larger than
> 2GB or that don't understand Unicode, and so forth. All things that could
> have been almost trivially avoided if everybody wasn't so hung up on
> absolute performance at any cost.

Now that's a bit unfair; nobody imagined back when lseek() was enshrined in
the Unix API that it would still be in use when a (long) wasn't big enough
:)  (Remember that Unix is itself a practical example of a research platform
"avoiding success at any cost" gone horribly wrong.)

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