[plug] Today's humour

[David Buddrige]

How programmers approach an elephant hunt.

Pascal Programmers will go to Capetown and draw a nice picture of a dead
elephant thereby learning the basic concept of elephant killing.

Windows Programmers will attempt to kill an elephant but will be
defeated by a blue-screen-of-death at a critical moment which leads to
them being trampled to death by an angry elephant.

C Programmers will spend hours figuring out how to kill an elephant in
one line.

Ada programmers nuke the entire African continent and wait for the dead
elephants to come out on exception handlers

COBOL programmers will bore the elephant to death.

Visual Basic Programmers will kill an elephant by pointing a mouse at an
elephant, double-clicking and then coding a kill routine.  This
subsequently allows the user to kill an elephant by pressing a button on
the elephants head.

Unix Administrators will set up a cron job to periodically run a perl
script that checks the system for elephants and kills them, thereby
freeing them up to go back to their normal occupation of berrating
Microsoft.

Assembler programmers will search the entire African Continent at the
speed of light and will leap on any Elephants they find and kill them
with their bare hands.

Microsoft Programmers will figure out a really user-friendly way of
killing elephants that will consume the entire resource base of the
third world in the process.  They will also set up contractural
agreements with any and all elephant suppliers to ensure that they only
offer their method of elephant killing to customers.  The method will
also inexplicably cause a blue-screen-of-death at the critical moment of
elephant killing usually leading to the customer being trampled to death
by an angry elephant.