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- Subject: Re: PROGRAMERS OF ANY LANGUAGE
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 08:31:45 GMT
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- Some time ago I found in c't the following
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- LAYMANS GUIDE TO PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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- c: Shoot yourself in the foot.
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- c++: Create 12 instances of yourself and shoot each of them in the foot.
- First aid will be difficult, because you can not distinguish between
- bitwise copys of yourself and pointers saying: Look, thats me, over
- there!
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- Fortran: Load foot from tape and shoot each toe iteratively. Then load
- next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, continue anyway for
- you have no error handling capabilities.
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- Forth: Foot in yourself shoot.
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- xBase: Shooting yourself is easy, but to shoot yourself in the foot you
- have to use Clipper.
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- Lisp: Shoot yourself in the appandege which holds the gun, with which
- you shoot yourself in the appandage, which holds the gun with ....
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- Pascal: The compiler does not allow you to shoot yourself in the foot.
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