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