Comment by pflenker

I joined a company once where some APIS were, for some reasons, returning strings instead of booleans (e.g. "false" instead of _false_). One of the system returned a typo for some edge cases, e.g. "ture" instead of "true". But instead of fixing this, other systems relied on the typo to be returned, so it was difficult to just fix the typo and move on.

Needless to say I didn't stick around.