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“C++” is a souped-up racing car with dozens of extra features that only breaks down every 250 miles, but when it does, nobody can figure out what went wrong.
“Java” is a family station wagon. It’s easy to drive, it’s not too fast, and you can’t hurt yourself.
“Lisp” looks like a car, but with enough tweaking you can turn it into a pretty effective airplane or submarine.
“Perl” is supposed to be a pretty cool car, but the driver’s manual is incomprehensible. Also, even if you can figure out how to drive a perl car, you won’t be able to drive anyone else’s.
“Python” is a great beginner’s car, you can drive it without a license, unless you want to drive really fast or on really treacherous terrain.
“Ruby” is a car that was formed when the “Perl”, “Python” and “Smalltalk” cars were involved in a three-way collision. A Japanese mechanic found the pieces and put together a car which many people think was better than the sum of the parts.
“Fortran” is a pretty primitive car, it’ll go very quickly as long as you are only going along roads that are perfectly straight. It is believed that learning to drive a Fortran car makes it impossible to learn to drive any other model.
“Cobol” is reputed to be a car, but no self-respecting driver will ever admit having driven one.
“Assembly Language” is a bare engine; you have to build the car yourself and manually supply it with gas while it’s running, but if you’re careful it can go like a bat out of hell.
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