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Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages?

Posted by Soulskill on from the object-disoriented-programming dept.

itwbennett writes: Every programming language has its own unique quirks, such as weird syntax, unusual functionality or non-standard implementations -- things that can cause developers new to the language, or even seasoned pros, to scratch their heads in wonder (or throw their hands up in despair). Phil Johnson has rounded up some of the strangest — from the + operator in JavaScript to the trigraphs in C and C++ and indentation level in Python. What programming language oddities cause you the most grief?"

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  1. a fucking slideshow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Posting a slideshow on Slashdot? Lame. What, was Buzzfeed not available?

  2. Perl: TMTOWTDI by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I used to think that Perl's feature of "There's More Than One Way To Do It" was great until I had to start modifying and maintaining the code of other developers, (several over the years). 20+ years I've been with Perl and I gotta say that through the years this has probably caused me more frustration than anything. Python, comparatively speaking, is a dominatrix and I'm starting to enjoy "There's Only One Way To Do It".