ClipperProgramInstead of hunting elephants, they just buy libraries for part of the elephants and spend years trying to integrate them.
DBASE programmers only hunt elephants at night, because at that time no one will notice that they are still using bows.
FoxPro programmers started to use newer and better rifles, which made them spend more time learning new shooting techniques than they actually did.
C programmers refuse to buy rifles directly. They would rather take steel pipes and a mobile machine workshop to Africa to create a perfect rifle from scratch.
When paradox programmers go to Africa, they take Hollywood movies about elephant hunting. They think they will catch an elephant as they do.
Access programmers started without any experience in hunting elephants. They wore gorgeous hunting costumes, carried all the equipment, found elephants with beautiful telescopes, and found that they forgot to trigger the trigger.
Rbase programmers are even fewer than elephants. In fact, if an elephant sees an rbase programmer, It is a lucky day.
Visual access programmers Mount bullets, raise rifles, and aim at elephants. This makes it ridiculous to see who has escaped. They cannot catch elephants because they have a preference for multiple controls and their jeeps have too many steering wheels to drive.
Ada, APL, and FORTRAN programmers are as fictional as Santa Claus and fairies.
COBOL programmers have deep sympathy for elephants that are just as extinct as they are.