Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[bauss]

On Monday, 25 October 2021 at 10:55:43 UTC, claptrap wrote:
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> 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.