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- From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
- Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
- Subject: *** shoot yourself in the foot
- Message-ID: <ZL2qXB18w165w@mertwig.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:57:10 EST
- Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net (Daniel Drucker)
- Organization: Abnormalities of Reality
- Lines: 151
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- And then get it massaged!
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- ** How to shoot yourself in the foot: **
- ** Which language is right for you? **
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- 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.
-
- Robyn's first law of computers:
- When putting something into memory, remember where the fuck you put
- it!!!
-
- Programmer's Caste
-
-
- THE C PROGRAMMER
- God consults with the C programmer on every major issue.
- The C programmer can walk on water.
- He programs on a 33MHz 386 w/SVGA and can program an
- entire graphical spreadsheet in about 2 days.
- The C programmer tends to put "()" after every major verb
- when they talk or write: "are you going() to see() NWA tommorow?
- I'll try() to get() tickets!"
-
- THE LISP PROGRAMMER
- The Lisp programmer does lunch with God every day.
- He is an olympic class swinner.
- He programs on a 20MHz 386sx with VGA and can program a pretty
- good text based spreadsheet in a little under a week.
- The Lisp programmer tends to put parenthesis around every major
- phrase in their sentences:
- "((Have (you (seen)) (that (new movie) yet))?
- ((I heard) it was (good).))"
- THE TURBO PASCAL PROGRAMMER
- The Turbo Pascal programmer occasionally has a word with God.
- He can swim pretty well.
- Programs on a 16MHz 286 with an EGA and can program a
- complicated scientific calculater in a week and a half.
- the TP programmer tends to put a "begin" and an "end" before
- every major topic:
- "begin
- That arcade game was awesome, man!
- end; "
- THE FORTRAN PROGRAMMER
- The ForTran programmer sometimes catches a glimpse of God.
- He manages to keep himself afloat in shallow water.
- He programs on a 8MHz 8088 with a Herc graphics adapter (he's
- too manly for color). A ForTran programmer can do a passable
- caclulation device in a few weeks.
- Nobody really knows how ForTran programmers talk cause ther are
- so few of them around these days!
- THE BASIC PROGRAMMER
- The BASIC programmer knows who God is.
- He has trouble avoiding drowning in his own bathtub.
- BASIC programmer works on a Commadore with a Turbo Accelerator
- (doubling the speed of his Commy to 2MHz! WoW!) He can make
- program that accepts two numbers and adds them together in just
- under 4 weeks.
- The BASIC programmer puts numbers before every sentence and has
- trouble when asking questions.
- "10 WoW, Wayne have you seen that neato Ninja Turtles movie?"
- "What Ninja Turtles movie?"
- "?Redo from start"
- THE LOGO PROGRAMMER
- About the only thing the Logo programmer knows about God is that
- it is a short enough word for them to sound out but has trouble
- spelling it.
- He wets himself with a squirt gun.
- He programs on an Apple IIc, and can do a program that put a box
- on the screen, that some might say looks like a calculater, in
- about 8 weeks (with the help of his teacher).
- The Logo programmer can't actually talk very well, but instead tends
- to draw a whole lot of pictures, crayon being their favorite media.
-
- *************************** BUT ****************************
-
- THE ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMER
- The assembly language programmer is God.
- He parts the sea when he wishes to cross it.
- He programs on a 50MHz 486 with XGA adn can do a multi-tasking,
- multi-user networking operating system that includes a high-level
- spreadsheet program during his coffee break.
- The assembly language programmer talks only in three letter words
- and drops the rest of the word: " Hey, Bil, I was jus thi, do you
- thi tha Rom act was an ext of the ten to cre fal ima of int abt
- for pur of rel?"
-
-
- Tagline seen on a local user group BBS:
-
- The best way to accelerate a Mac is at 9.8m/sec^2.
-
- Shit happens in......
- C++ shit.happens() ;
- prolog happens(shit, you).
- C core dump
- Lisp ((((((happens(shit)))))))
- BASIC GOSUB 10000
-
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