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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> As said to have been seen on /.
> another financial disaster, again caused
> by making references to nothing, in Algol W,
> http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/presentation/Null+References:+The+Billion+Dollar+Mistake

You are misreading the abstract. First of all, it's not
about some particular incident. He's talking about the
overall impact. Second, he's not talking about failure
to check for null references, he's talking about having
null references at all, so Ada is no better.