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- From: kevin.jessup <kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com>
- Subject: Shoot your foot!
- Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:06:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.210609.12399@mixcom.com>
- Sender: bbwwbb@mixcom.com (Kevin Jessup)
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- I recently found this on internet. Enjoy.
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- How to shoot yourself in the foot:
- Which language is right for you?
-
-
- Assembler: You shoot yourself in the foot.
-
- Ada: The Department of Defense shoots you in the foot after
- offering you a blindfold and a last cigarrette.
-
- BASIC (interpreted): You shoot yourself in the foot with a
- water pistol until your leg is waterlogged and rots off.
-
- BASIC (compiled): You shoot yourself in the foot with a BB
- using a SCUD missile launcher.
-
- C++: You create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them
- all in the foot. Not knowing which feet are virtual, medical
- care is impossible.
-
- COBOL: USE HANDGUN.COLT(45), AIM AT LEG.FOOT, THEN WITH
- ARM.HAND.FINGER ON HANDGUN.COLT(TRIGGER) PREFORM SQUEEZE, RETURN
- HANDGUN.COLT TO HIP.HOLSTER.
-
- cah: After searching the manual until your foot falls asleep,
- you shoot the computer and switch to C.
-
- dBASE: You buy a gun. Bullets are only available from another
- company and are promised to work so you buy them. Then you find
- out that the next version of the gun is the one that is scheduled
- to shoot bullets.
-
- Fortran: You shoot yourself in each toe, interactively, until
- you run out of toes. You shoot the sixth bullet anyway, since no
- exception-processing was anticipated.
-
- Modula-2: You perform a shooting on what might currently be a
- foot with what might currently be a bullet shot by what might
- currently be a gun.
-
- Pascal: Same as Modula-2, except the bullet is not of the right
- type for the gun and your hand is blown off.
-
- PL/1: After consuming all system resources, including bullets,
- the data processing department doubles its size, acquires two new
- mainframes, and drops the original on your foot.
-
- Smalltalk, Actor, etc: After playing with the graphics for
- three weeks, the programming manager shoots you in the head.
-
- Snobol: Grab your foot with your hand and rewrite your hand to
- be a bullet.
-
-
- Anyone care to add the HP48 RPL version??
-
- --
- Kevin Jessup, kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com
-
- "Friends don't let friends run DOS."
- -- Microware
-