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6502

You shoot yourself in the foot.

Assembler

LDA BULLET
STA FOOT

68000

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

8080

You foot yourself in the shoot.

Z80

In the foot yourself shoot you, but nobody is able to figure out how on earth you shot into both feet at the same time.

Ada

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

APL

GN (* Upside down triangle *) 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 teh foot with a BB using a Scud missle launcher.

VISUAL BASIC

You'll shoot yourself in the foot, but you're having so much fun, you don't care.

C

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

C

*foot = bullet

C

foot = U (shoot_self);

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.

C++

U (shoot_self) >> foot

Objective-C

[self shoot:aFoot];

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 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.

FORTH

Foot Bullet shootInto.

FORTRAN

EQUIVALENCE (BULLET, FOOT)

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.

Logo

While you are playing tricks with the water pistol, a small turtle tries to bite you in your toe.

M (formerly MUMPS)

K ^YOU("FOOT","LEFT"). Luckily, M is primarily used in medical applications, so you can register yourself in the hospital immediately.

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 a 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/1

After comsuming 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.

TECO

@fs/bullet/foot/

Windows

You click on Bullet, and the mouse knocks the manual off the desktop. The manual lands corner-first on your foot.