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• pistol n. [IBM] A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
  Unix rm * makes such a nice pistol!...
• pistol: [IBM] n. A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
  UNIX `rm *' makes such a nice pistol!" -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Friendship is neither transitive nor inherited. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language
• When an eel bites your leg, and the pain makes you beg, that's a moray!
• Having high aims in life makes it a bit more possible to shoot yourself in the knee, rather than in the foot.
• An axe stroke makes a deep wound in your leg.
• C for yourself.
• The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
  For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous....