Null references (oh no, not again!)

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> There have been precedents where things sat in relative obscurity for 
> decades before finally catching on. Such as many functional-programming 
> concepts, like map/reduce and no-side-effect programming, which have only 
> recently become highly in-vogue. Or Babbage's analytical engine. Of course, 
> I'm not saying it would be easy, just that I wouldn't necessarily rule it 
> out on that alone. 

Sure, but it does give one pause.