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The proliferation of modern programming languages which seem to
have stolen countless features from each other sometimes makes it
difficult to remember which language you're using. This guide is
offered as a public service to help programmers in such dilemmas.
C:
You shoot yourself in the foot.
Assembly:
You crash the OS and overwrite the root disk. The system
administrator arrives and shoots you in the foot. After a moment
of contemplation, the administrator shoots himself in the foot and
then hops around the room rabidly shooting at everyone in sight.
APL:
You hear a gunshot, and there's a hole in your foot, but you
don't remember enough linear algebra to understand what the hell
happened.
C++:
You accidently create a dozen instances of yourself and
shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical care is
impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and
which are just pointing at others and saying, "that's me, over
there."
Ada:
If you are dumb enough to actually use this language, the United
States Department of Defense will kidnap you, stand you up in
front of a firing squad, and tell the soldiers, "Shoot at his
feet."
MODULA-2:
After realizing that you can't actually accomplish anything in
the language, you shoot yourself in the head.
Pascal:
Same as Modula-2, except the bullets are the wrong type and
won't pass through the barrel. The gun explodes. sh,csh,etc.:
You can't remember the syntax for anything, so you spend five
hours reading man pages before giving up. You then shoot the
computer and switch to C.
Smalltalk:
You spend so much time playing with the graphics and windowing
system that your boss shoots you in the foot, takes away your
workstation, and makes you develop in COBOL on a character
terminal.
FORTRAN:
You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out
of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run
out of bullets, you continue anyway because you have no
exception- processing ability.
ALGOL:
You shoot yourself in the foot with a musket. The musket is
esthetically fascinating, and the wound baffles the adolescent
medic in the emergency room.
COBOL:
USEing a COLT45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place
ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER, and SQUEEZE. THEN return
HANDGUN to HOLSTER. Check whether shoelace needs to be retied.
BASIC:
Shoot self in foot with water pistol. On big systems, continue
until entire lower body is waterlogged.
PL/I:
You consume all available system resources, including all the
offline bullets. The Data Processing & Payroll Department doubles
its size, triples its budget, acquires four new mainframes, and
drops the original one on your foot.
SNOBOL:
You grab your foot with your hand, then rewrite your hand to be
a bullet. The act of shooting the original foot then changes your
hand/bullet into yet another foot (a left foot).
LISP:
You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun
with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the
gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which
holds...
SCHEME:
You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun
with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the
gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which
holds... ...but none of the other appendages are aware of this
happening.
English:
You put your foot in your mouth, then bite it off.