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What language is right for you? Or, shooting your

Which language is right for you?
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In order to help you make a competent, uncomplicated choice concerning the
competition between complex, incompatible computer compilers, we have
composed this complete, compact, composite compendium comprising comparisons
to compensate for the complaints and complements of their compromises. We
hope you will find it comprehensible rather than compost.

6502:
You shoot yourself in the foot.

68000:
You can't decide which gun and which bullet to use, so you
hang yourself.

Z80, 8080...:
You foot yourself in the shoot.

Ada:
The Department of Defense shoots you in the foot after offering you
a blindfold and a last cigarette.

APL:
GN </ FT ^ BLT

BASIC (interpreted):
You shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol until your leg
is waterlogged and falls off.

BASIC (compiled):
You shoot yourself in the foot with a BB using a SCUD missile
launcher.

C:
You shoot yourself in the foot and then no one else can figure out
what you did.

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) PERFORM SQUEEZE, RETURN HANDGUN.COLT TO
HIP.HOLSTER.

csh:
After searching the manual until your foot fall 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.

FORTRAN:
You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, 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.

occam:
You shoot both your feet with several guns at once.

ORCA/C:
Byteworks keeps promising to supply good ammunition RSN!

Pascal:
Same as Modula-2, except the bullet is not of the right type for the
gun and your hand is blown off.

Pascal:
You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but it tells you that your foot
is the wrong type and out of range to boot!

PL/I:
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.

Prolog (interpreted):
Your program tries to shoot you in the foot, but you die of old age
before the bullet leaves the gun.

Prolog (compiled):
The facts are against you. You try to stop the gun from shooting
you in the foot, but it replies "No."

Smalltalk, Actor:
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.

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