Shooting yourself in the foot :
assembler : you attempt to shoot yourself in the foot
only to discover that you must first invent the gun,
the bullet, the trigger, and your 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 assistance 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."
cobol : the gun won't fire unless it's aligned in column 8.
concurrent euclid : you shoot yourself in somebody else's foot.
dbase : you squeeze the trigger,
but the bullet moves so slowly that by the time your foot feels the pain
you've forgotten why you shot yourself anyway.
forth : foot you in the yourself shoot.
java : you shoot yourself in the foot.
all the other users of your site leave hobbling and cursing.
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...
paradox : not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can too.
pascal : the compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot.
perl : you separate the bullet from the gun with a hyperoptimized regexp,
and then you transport it to your foot using several typeglobs.
however, the program fails to run and you can't correct
it since you don't understand what the hell it is you've written.
vb: you'll shoot yourself in the foot,
but you'll have so much fun doing it that you won't care.