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> Sounds like a list of edge cases just like any other area.

That's exactly the point. The famous example (Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names) has examples I have encountered in medical databases. If a programmer somewhere didn't fall into the trap, patient names in a medical database would have been better managed and may have avoided duplication, lost records, etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18567548



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