Algol通过名称传递(使用C语法说明):

int a[3] = { 1, 2, 3 };
int i = 1;

void f(int j)
{
    int k;
    k = j;  // k = 2
    i = 0;
    k = j;  // k = 1 (!?!)    
}

int main()
{
    f(a[i]);
}

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。

Python 2. x

>>>True = False
>>>True
False

你真的可以让一个人变得疯狂。

在早期版本的Visual Basic中，没有“Return”语句的函数只是“Return None”，没有任何编译器警告(或错误)。

这导致了最疯狂的调试会话，那时我必须每天处理这种语言。

这个古老的PHP宠儿本身并不完全是WTFish，但作用域解析错误是许多开发人员看到的事情之一，值得给一些WTF的爱:

$class = new StdClass();
$class::test();

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM on line 3

有些奇怪——VBScript有一个Null关键字和一个Nothing关键字(Null是丢失的数据，Nothing是丢失的对象)。为什么不只有一个关键词…?大多数其他语言似乎都可以用一个!

Visual Basic 6.0当然还有“经典ASP”代码(因为它使用VBScript)也有同样的奇怪之处。在Visual Basic的新旧版本中，我们都有DBNull。

然而，这种情况正在改善，就像Visual Basic一样。NET Null终于消失了，所以Null不再使用，只有Nothing和DBNull被使用。