Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[ClapTrap]

On Monday, 25 October 2021 at 11:38:16 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Monday, 25 October 2021 at 10:55:43 UTC, claptrap wrote:
>>
>> I'm saying it probably initially came from boolean algebra in 
>> maths. Or maybe even electronics, there was a history of 
>> boolean logic being expressed with symbols before programming 
>> languages even existed.
>
> Math, sure. Electronics, doubt; considering Algorithm for the 
> Analytical Engine was designed in 1883.

What I'm getting at is that whoever designed B, C or whatever 
came before that probably had a math and or electronics 
background, so that's why they chose symbolic expressions for 
bitwise / boolean ops.

I doubt Babages engine had any influence on modern programming 
syntax.