这缺少了一个奇怪的特性:Python没有switch语句(尽管存在变通方法)。

Perl。

输出“Foo\n”除非$ Foo;

Perl

my %h1 = map { $_ => 1 } qw/foo bar baz/;    // construct an 'is_member' type lookup table
my %h2 = map { "$_" => 1 } qw/foo bar baz/;

第二行是一个语法错误，即使对一个有经验的perl程序员来说，它看起来是一样的。perl的缺点是总是试图做你想做的，而不是你说的。

Javascript中有很多东西会让你流泪。

局部变量的作用域，举个简单的例子:

function foo(obj)
{
  for (var n = 0; n < 10; n++)
  {
    var t;        // Here is a 't'
    ...
  }
  t = "okay";     // And here's the same 't'
}

Tcl中的连接是将两个字符串添加为一个字符串:

set s1 "prime"
set s2 "number"
set s3 $s1$s2
puts s3

输出为

primenumber

INTERCAL可能是最奇怪的语言特征的最佳汇编。我个人最喜欢的是COMEFROM语句，它(几乎)与GOTO相反。

COMEFROM is roughly the opposite of GOTO in that it can take the execution state from any arbitrary point in code to a COMEFROM statement. The point in code where the state transfer happens is usually given as a parameter to COMEFROM. Whether the transfer happens before or after the instruction at the specified transfer point depends on the language used. Depending on the language used, multiple COMEFROMs referencing the same departure point may be invalid, be non-deterministic, be executed in some sort of defined priority, or even induce parallel or otherwise concurrent execution as seen in Threaded Intercal. A simple example of a "COMEFROM x" statement is a label x (which does not need to be physically located anywhere near its corresponding COMEFROM) that acts as a "trap door". When code execution reaches the label, control gets passed to the statement following the COMEFROM. The effect of this is primarily to make debugging (and understanding the control flow of the program) extremely difficult, since there is no indication near the label that control will mysteriously jump to another point of the program.