Re: Have you always dreamed of become a high payed consultant?

[Liam Devlin <address@hidden>]

Peter E. C. Dashwood wrote:
> Robert Graham <rgraham2@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
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> 
>>Well, Shakespeare may not be so far off topic.  One time, I
>>resigned from a job where the manager was a ********.  In my
>>letter of resignation I quoted from Hamlet -
>>
>>"If we treated every man after his just deserts, then who
>>would escape whipping."
> 
> I'll never forget the ICL COBOL manual, written sometime in the late
> 60s/early 70s, which said:
> 
> "Future implementations of the DIVIDE verb will permit the use of the
> REMAINDER construct. "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished." "
> 
> (It was obviously written by some poor English Lit. graduate who was
> DETERMINED to get MacBeth into COBOL.
> 
> Now, see, if that had been me, I would have used another of MacBeth's
> soliloquys: "We are but teachers preaching bloody instructions, which, being
> taught, return to plague th' inventor...This even handed justice commends
> our poisoned chalice to our own lips." Now doesn't that sum up programming
> and debugging perfectly?  And good ol' Willy wrote it 400 years before
> computers were invented! Don't tell me the man wasn't a genius...<G>)

God, I love it when you talk dirty:)