# The worst mistake of computer science

<https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2015/08/31/the-worst-mistake-of-computer-science/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Uglier than a Windows backslash, odder than ===, more common than PHP, more unfortunate than CORS, more disappointing than Java generics, more inconsistent than XMLHttpRequest, more confusing than a C preprocessor, flakier than MongoDB, and more regrettable than UTF-16, the worst mistake in computer science was introduced in 1965.

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