While preparing for a presentation on Scala, I added some jokes on the functional languages. Here's the original version and the new editions Erlang You create a dozen clones of youself, pass the gun to one another in turn to shoot at each other's foot Python You have to align your foot 10 steps below the gun for it to work Ruby You pull the trigger to find popcorns popping out of the gun. Someone somewhere has just made all guns shoot popcorns. Haskell Close your eyes and picture a gun in your mind. Think about the foot being shot. Open your eyes. You found your foot shot. No sound. No smell. No one else even noticed. Scala You pull the trigger and you got shot. You stab your foot with the gun and you got shot.