From: engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com   
      
   Robert Bralic wrote:   
      
   > Dear,   
   >   
   > Escouse me if this is not approporiate group for this   
   > question.   
      
   It's not. Delphi is handled in Delphi groups.  If however you ask for   
   the difference between Pascal in general and C/C++, you may be   
   enlightened by the following "Guide to programming languages"   
      
   Task: Shoot yourself in the foot   
      
   *Access:* You try to point the gun at your foot, but it shoots holes in   
   all your Borland distribution diskettes instead.   
      
   *Ada:* After correctly packing your foot you attempt concurrently to   
   load the gun, pull the trigger, scream and shoot yourself in the foot.   
   When you try however, you discover that your foot is of the wrong type.   
      
   *APL:* You hear a gunshot, and there is a hole in your foot, but you   
   lost your intergalactic dictionary and therefore can't figure out what   
   the hell happened.   
      
   *Assembler:* You try to shoot yourself in the foot, only to discover   
   that you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger and your   
   foot. In the process you crash the OS and overwrite the root disk. The   
   system administrator shoots you in the foot. After a moment   
   contemplation, he shoots himself in the foot too and then hops around   
   the room rabidly shooting everybody in sight.   
      
   *BASIC:* Shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol. Continue until   
   your entire lower body is waterlogged.   
      
   *C:* You shoot yourself in the fot, because you forgot one character   
   somewhere and the compiler didn't bother to tell you. Fot turns out to   
   be Romanian for genitals. ``You asked for it, you got it''   
      
   *C++:* You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot   
   each of them in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is   
   impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies of yourself and   
   which are just pointing at others and saying: ``That's me, over there!''   
      
   *COBOL:* Using a COLT 45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place   
   ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN return HANDGUN to   
   HOLSTER. CHECK whether shoelace needs to be re-tied.   
      
   *Concurrent Euclid:* You shoot yourself in somebodies else's foot.   
      
   *dBase:* Shooting yourself is easy. However, in order to shoot yourself   
   in the foot you have to use Clipper.   
      
   *FORTH:* Foot in yourself shoot.   
      
   *FORTRAN:* Load foot from tape and shoot each toe iteratively. When you   
   run out of toes, load next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets,   
   continue anyway, for you have no exception-handling ability.   
      
   *HyperTalk:* Put the first bullet of gun into foot left leg of you.   
   Answer the result.   
      
   *LISP:* You shoot yourself into the appendage, which holds the gun with   
   which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which   
   you shoot yourself in the appendage which.....   
      
   *Modula-2:* After realizing you can not actually accomplish anything in   
   this language you shoot yourself in the head.   
      
   *Motiv:* You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the   
   bullet, its trajectory and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles   
   of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun   
   jams.   
      
   *Paradox:* Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can,   
   too.   
      
   *Pascal:* The compiler won't allow you to shoot yourself in the foot.   
      
   *Prolog:* You tell your program that you want to be shot in the foot.   
   The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn't permit it   
   to explain it to you.   
      
   *Revelation:* You're sure you will be able to shoot yourself in the foot   
   as soon as you found out what all these little bullet-thingies are for.   
      
   *SNOBOL:* If you succeed, shoot yourself in the right foot, if you fail   
   shoot yourself in the left foot.   
      
   *Unix:*   
   # ls   
      foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o   
   # rm * .o   
    rm:.o no such file or directory   
   # ls   
      
   *370 JCL:* You send your foot down to MIS and include a 400 page   
   document explaining exactly how you want it to be shot. Three years   
   later, your foot comes back deep-fried.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)