在awk中，数组从索引1开始，这是最不容易混淆的。

C的多个名称空间:

typedef int i;

void foo()
{
    struct i {i i;} i;
    i: i.i = 3;
    printf( "%i\n", i.i);
}

或与字符:

typedef char c;

void foo()
{
    struct c {c c;} c;
    c: c.c = 'c';
    printf( "%c\n", c.c);
}

在PHP中:

echo 'foo' == 0;    // echos '1'
echo 'foo' == true; // echos '1'
echo 0 == true;     // echos '0'
$foo = 'foo';
echo $foo['bar']    // echos 'f'

PHP有一些最烦人的类型强制转换…

A very tiny thing that annoyed me in COBOL was that there was no dedicated modulo operation. Instead you could do a division specifying that you only wanted whole number results and store the rest in a different variable. Since COBOL is very sensitive when it comes to variables that means that you ended up with a variable you didn't really need, i.e. the actual result of the division. This is the story of how I once named a variable "USELESS" - that was the most appropriate name I could think of.

VBScript的日期/时间文字(为什么这个仍然如此罕见?):

mydate = #1/2/2010 5:23 PM#

If mydate > #1/1/2010 17:00# Then ' ...

编辑:日期文字是相对的(那么它们在技术上是文字吗?):

mydate = #Jan 3# ' Jan 3 of the current year

VB。NET，因为它是编译的，所以不支持相对日期文字。只支持日期或时间字面量，但缺失的时间或日期被假定为零。

编辑[2]:当然，有一些奇怪的极端情况会出现相对日期……

mydate = #Feb 29# ' executed on 2010-01-05, yields 2/1/2029

回想起来，FORTRAN的计算goto是相当奇怪的。维基百科告诉我一些基础知识胜过它。

另一个著名的最爱是Algol 60的名称参数调用传递。