Jonathan Peterson wrote:
>
> Got this through the email. Where do Perl people fit in?
>
> Unix person: So then he tried to su to chroot, but of course the crontab
> wasn't even mounted because there were four spaces instead of a tab in the
> getty sed awk ^] sh ksh zsh >> << | and that's why we're getting another
> three E45000s to run it on.
> Other unix person: haw haw haw! Computing is truly an art.
>
> Windows Person: We spent 50 hours optimizing the drawing routine so as to
> produce proper antialiasing even on strange hardware, but in the end we
> couldn't roll it out because none of the sysadmins knows how to.
> Other windows person: oh well.
>
> Java person: We spent 3000 hours optimizing the drawing until finally it
> could run on a pentium II. Now we just have to make sure the users have
> I.E.4.8 with the JDK1.3.1 plugin, J3D 2.x, and at least DBTools 2.2 or
> above, and the correct classpath, and odbc settings, and one of the default
> fonts that actually works. If not, our six months of work will be
> completely wasted.
> Other java person: Failure is impossible. We will prevail. Setbacks are
> irrelevant. The fools just don't understand that this is JAVA.
perl person: Hacked a drawing program in 2 hours.
other person: That long, oh dear ......
Greg
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