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。

Perl:

可以编写一个完全由标点符号组成的程序。

这是怎么回事?!

在MySQL中字符串比较是不区分大小写的。

> SELECT * FROM blah WHERE foo = 'BAR';
> SELECT * FROM blah WHERE foo = 'Bar';
> SELECT * FROM blah WHERE foo = 'bAr';

都是等价的。它们不仅会匹配任何看起来像'bar'的foo值(例如，如果foo = 'bar'，它将匹配bar, bar, bar等)。

闲聊：

在类Test中有一个类方法，返回一个常量字符串:

method1
    ^ 'niko'

无论发生什么，这个方法都会不断返回字符串'niko'。但事实并非如此。

s := Test method1 

(设置为“niko”。)

s at: 4 put: $i.

(设置为“niki”。)

s := Test method1

(再次设置为“niki”。)

因此，第二行代码永久地将method1更改为返回'niki'而不是'niko'，即使方法的源代码没有更新。

我肯定会给Perl提供多个可怕的例子:

if(!$#var)

or

if($mystring =~ m/(\d+)/) {

在Python中:

>>> x = 4
>>> y = 1000000
>>> x is 4
True
>>> y is 1000000
False
>>>

如果你不相信，就试试吧!