simon@cs.washington.edu (Kevin Simonson) (12/07/90)
I realize this is a very strange article to be posting in
"comp.lang.ada"; maybe it'd be more appropriate for a group like
"alt.far_side", but I couldn't find such a group in my ".newsrc" file.
The situation is this. I've been programming in Ada for three years
now, and though it has its quirks, I really like it. My fiance has been
programming in Cobol for much longer than that. I don't think she has any-
thing against Ada (which my predicament might illustrate), but we've had
our share of fun poking fun at the shortcomings of the other's language-of-
choice.
Anyhow the other day she gave me a poster that has a picture of a hu-
mongous dinosaur with a caption that says, "Once Upon A Time There Was
COBOL." I've got it tacked to the partition next to my desk.
This morning I got a vision. I remembered one of the funnier Far Side
cartoons I've seen, depicting a gathering of dinosaurs. A dinosaur at the
podium says something like, "Gentlemen, the situation is bleak. The cli-
mate's changing, the rodents are taking over, and we've all got a brain the
size of a walnut."
The vision is of my fiance's poster, next to a cut-out of this car-
toon, next to a picture of a rodent (probably a mouse), labeled Ada.
I can probably get a hold of a picture of a mouse easy enough. Does
anybody know which of Gary Larson's anthologies might include the dinosaur
cartoon, so I could buy it, and cut out that one cartoon to tack to my
wall?
If anybody can provide me any information on this, I'd really appre-
ciate it. Thanks.
---Kevin Simonson
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Even with a piece of buttered toast tied to its back,
the cat still falls on its feet. ---Tor Jeremiassen