Ada symbolized as a rodent

Ada symbolized as a rodent

[Kevin Simonson]

     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
-- 
Even with a piece of buttered toast tied to its back,
the cat still falls on its feet.   ---Tor Jeremiassen