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<H3>Layman's Guide to Programming Languages</H3>
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<B>c</B>: Shoot yourself in the foot.
<B>c++</B>: Create 12 instances of yourself and shoot each of them in the foot.
First aid will be difficult, because you can not distinguish between
bitwise copys of yourself and pointers saying: Look, thats me, over
there!
<B>Fortran</B>: Load foot from tape and shoot each toe iteratively. Then load
next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, continue anyway for
you have no error handling capabilities.
<B>Forth</B>: Foot in yourself shoot.
<B>xBase</B>: Shooting yourself is easy, but to shoot yourself in the foot you
have to use Clipper.
<B>Lisp</B>: Shoot yourself in the appandege which holds the gun, with which
you shoot yourself in the appandage, which holds the gun with ....
<B>Pascal</B>: The compiler does not allow you to shoot yourself in the foot.
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