在fortran中(当然是77，可能在95中也是如此)，未声明的变量和以I到N开头的参数(“In”组)将是INTEGER，所有其他未声明的变量和参数将是REAL(源)。这与“在某些情况下可选的空白”相结合，导致了最著名的错误之一。

正如弗雷德·韦伯在1990年的《另类民间传说:计算机》一书中所说:

I worked at Nasa during the summer of 1963. The group I was working in was doing preliminary work on the Mission Control Center computer systems and programs. My office mate had the job of testing out an orbit computation program which had been used during the Mercury flights. Running some test data with known answers through it, he was getting answers that were close, but not accurate enough. So, he started looking for numerical problems in the algorithm, checking to make sure his tests data was really correct, etc. After a couple of weeks with no results, he came across a DO statement, in the form: DO 10 I=1.10 This statement was interpreted by the compiler (correctly) as: DO10I = 1.10 The programmer had clearly intended: DO 10 I = 1, 10 After changing the . to a , the program results were correct to the desired accuracy. Apparently, the program's answers had been "good enough" for the sub-orbital Mercury flights, so no one suspected a bug until they tried to get greater accuracy, in anticipation of later orbital and moon flights. As far as I know, this particular bug was never blamed for any actual failure of a space flight, but the other details here seem close enough that I'm sure this incident is the source of the DO story.

我认为这是一个很大的WTF，如果DO10I被作为DO10I，并且反过来，因为隐式声明被认为是类型REAL。这是个很棒的故事。

Delphi不关心像“word”这样的类型转换，将读取数组arr[0..65535] where pos = 65535: Arr[单词(pos + 10)]

ActionScript 3:

当一个对象被它的接口使用时，编译器不识别从object继承的方法，因此:

IInterface interface = getInterface();
interface.toString();

给出一个编译错误。 解决方法是将类型转换为Object

Object(interface).toString();

PHP:

． 和+运算符。它有其合理的解释，但“a”+“5”= 5仍然显得尴尬。

Java(以及任何IEEE754的实现):

System.out.println(0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1);

输出0.9999999999999999

在类C语言(包括C本身)中，你可以使用“向下到”操作符:

for (x = 20; x --> 0;) {
    print x;
}

这将打印从19到0的数字。

我为客户端编写了一种编程语言(用于实验驱动定制硬件)，其中包含一些定制类型(Curl, Circuit，…)，每种类型只有2个值。它们可以隐式地转换为布尔值，但是(在客户机的请求下)可以在运行时更改此类类型常量的确切布尔值。

例如: Curl类型有2个可能的值:CW和CCW(顺时针和逆时针)。在运行时，你可以通过一个简单的赋值语句改变布尔值:

ccw := true

所以你可以改变所有这些类型值的布尔值。

PHP

$ php -r '::'
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

WTF ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator

为什么不说意外的T_SCOPE_RESOLUTION_OPERATOR ?