Programming Languages:
How to shoot yourself in the foot?

C

You shoot yourself in the foot.

C++

You accidentally 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."

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 handling ability.

Cobol

USE HANDGUN.COLT(45), AIM AT LEG.FOOT, THEN WITH ARM.HAND.FINGER ON HANDGUN.COLT(TRIGGER) PERFORM.SQUEEZE RETURN HANDGUN.COLT(45) TO HIP.HOLSTER.

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 the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with
which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds...

Basic(interpreted)

You shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol until your foot is waterlogged and rots off.

Basic(compiled)

You shoot yourself in the foot with a BB using a SCUD missile launcher.

FORTH

Foot in yourself shoot.

APL

You shoot yourself in the foot, then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters.

Pascal

The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot.

SNOBOL

If you succeed, shoot yourself in the left foot. If you fail, shoot yourself in the right foot.

Concurrent Euclid

You shoot yourself in somebody else's foot.

HyperTalk

Put the first bullet of the gun into the foot left of leg of you. Answer the result.

Motif

You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the trajectory, the bullet, and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams.

Unix

      % ls
      foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
      % rm * .o
      rm: .o: No such file or directory
      % ls
      %

XBase

Shooting yourself is no problem. If you want to shoot yourself in the foot, you'll have to use Clipper.

Paradox

Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can, too.

Revelation

You'll be able to shoot yourself in the foot just as soon as you figure out what all these bullets are for.

Visual Basic

You'll really only appear to have shot yourself in the foot, but you'll have had so much fun doing it that you won't care.

Prolog

You tell your program that you want to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn't permit it to explain it to you.

370 JCL

You send your foot down to MIS and include a 400-page document explaining exactly how you want it to be shot. Three years later, your foot comes back deep-fried.

Apple

We'll let you shoot yourself, but it'll cost you a bundle.

IBM

You insert a clip into the gun, wait half an hour, and it goes off in random directions. If a bullet hits your foot, you're lucky.

Microsoft

Object "Foot" will be included in the next release. You can upgrade for $500.

Cray

I knew you were going to shoot yourself in the foot.

Hewlett-Packard

You can use this machine-gun to shoot yourself in the foot, but the firing pin is broken.

NeXT

We don't sell guns anymore, just ammunition.

Sun

Just as soon as Solaris gets here, you can shoot yourself anywhere you want.

Ada

After correctly packing your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover you can't because your foot is of the wrong type.

Access

You try to point the gun at your foot, but it shoots holes in all your Borland distribution diskettes instead.

Assembler

You try to shoot yourself in the foot, only to discover you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger, and your foot.

Modula2

After realizing that you can't actually accomplish anything in this language, you shoot yourself in the head.

csh

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 actually shoot bullets.

PL/1

After consuming all system resources including bullets, the data processing department doubles its size, acquires 2 new mainframes and drops the original on your foot.

Smalltalk, Actor, et al

After playing with the graphics for 3 weeks, the programming manager shoots you in the head.

HTML

<a target="http://body/lower-half/leg/foot.appendage">Shoot
here</a>

Java

The gun fires just fine, but your foot can't figure out what the bullets are.

MOO

You ask a wizard for a pair of hands. After lovingly handcrafting the gun, bullets, and foot, you tell everyone that you've shot yourself in the foot.

FTP

     % ftp lower-body.me.org
     ftp> cd /foot
     ftp> put bullets

Windows95

	d:\setup

And lest we forget our roots

>shoot self in foot
I don't see any self here.
>shoot me in foot
There is no you in the foot.
>shoot foot
I don't know which foot you're talking about.
>shoot left foot
You don't have the gun.
>get gun
You take the gun.
You're lantern just went out.
You are attacked by grues.

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