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A story in Bloomberg News about last years Ether Hack (a type of Bitcoin) had this paragraph:

Another decision he made when he had no idea of the bug shows how quirky and unforgiving code can be. “If the capital ‘T’ in line 666 had been a small ‘t,’ that would also have prevented the hack,” he says.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-the-ether-thief/

So nice in Lisp to be able to dispense with these kinds of semantic errors induced by simple character syntax errors…

- DM
Updated at: 2020-12-10 08:30 UTC