这个C程序在x86和x86-64上输出不同的结果:

#include <stdio.h>
int main (void)
{
  long a = -1; 
  unsigned b = 1; 
  printf ("%d\n", a > b); 
  return 0;
}

一个意想不到的特性是，在C、c#、Ruby等语言中，枚举定义列表和数组初始化列表中的末尾逗号。

string[] foods = { "tofu", "grits", "cabbage", }

public enum ArtPeriod {
  Modern,
  Romantic,
  Dada,
}

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。

在PHP中，函数名不区分大小写。这可能会导致您认为php中的所有标识符都不区分大小写。再猜一遍。变量区分大小写。WTF。

function add($a, $b)
{
    return $a + $b;
}

$foo = add(1, 2);
$Foo = Add(3, 4);

echo "foo is $foo"; // outputs foo is 3
echo "Foo is $Foo"; // outputs Foo is 7

在MATLAB(交互式数组语言，目前是TIOBE 20)中，有一个关键字end来表示数组的最后一个元素(它对应于NumPy -1)。这是一个众所周知的MATLAB语法:

myVar = myArray(end)

要从数组中间获取一个元素，通常可以这样写:

myVar = myArray( ceil( length(myArray)/2 ) )

令人惊讶的是，关键字end根本不是一个关键字，而是一种变量:

myVar = myArray( ceil( end/2 ) )

在Scala中，没有操作符，只有方法。所以a + b - c实际上等于a +(b) -(c)在这里，它等于Smalltalk。但是，与Smalltalk不同的是，它考虑了优先级。规则基于第一个字符，因此一个假设的方法*+将优先于一个叫做+*的方法。做了一个例外，以便任何以=结尾的方法都将具有与==——含义相同的优先级!!和!=(非假设方法)具有不同的优先级。

所有ASCII字母的优先级最低，但所有非ASCII (unicode)字符的优先级最高。如果你写了一个比较两个int型的方法，那么2 + 2 = 1 + 3将会编译并为真。如果你用葡萄牙语写é，那么2 + 2 é 1 + 3会导致错误，因为它会看到2 + (2 é 1) + 3。

而且，在Scala中操作符的WTF中，所有以:结尾的方法都是右关联的，而不是左关联的。这意味着1::2::Nil等价于Nil.::(2).::(1)而不是1.::(2).::(Nil)。