FIOC

What the fuck is actually that wrong with Python?
Sure, it's inelegant, but you can get shit done with it surprisingly fast. It's like the chainsaw of programming languages.

Ruby definitely has very odd semantics. I had no idea how screwy it was until I read this: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/10/18/such-a-little-thing/

...don't read it to the end, though; the guy brags like a chump about how brilliant Rust is because it borrows something that MATLAB has had for years.

Perl also does the whole "invisible return" thing, and I've found it's wildly inappropriate unless you're working with an output-centric DSL, since you can't tell if a function call on the last line will return something or not unless you read the function itself.