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

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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Re:Powershell

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

This is SYNTAX, not FEATURE.

When I think of a languages strangest feature? No doubt, it's the ear lobes. And the crinkly bits at the corners of their eyes, when they smile. :-)

Yes, there's only one right way - my way

[raymorris]

Perl is my preferred language for the majority of tasks that I do. I really like Perl overall. TIMTOWTDI annoys me, though. There is a right way to do it. Once is a great while, there are two correct ways, and still one best way.

TIMTOWTDI seems more appropriate for PHP, "do it however, as long as it looks like it kinda works for now. It's not like we're actual programmers who know what we're doing".