COMPUTER SCIENTISTS hunt elephants by excercising Algorithm A:

1. Go to Africa.
2. Start at the Cape of Good Hope.
3. Work northward in an orderly manner, traversing the continent
alternately east and west.
4. During each traverse pass:
   a. Catch each animal seen.
   b. Compare each animal caught to a known elephant.
   c. Stop when a match is found.

EXPERIENCED COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS modify Algorithm A by placing a known
elephant in Cairo to ensure that the algorithm will terminate.

ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMERS prefer to execute Algorithm A on their
hands and knees.

ENGINEERS hunt elephants by going to Africa, catching gray animals at
random, and stopping when any one of them weighs within plus or minus
15 percent of any previously observed elephant.

ECONOMISTS don't hunt elephants, but they believe that if elephants
are paid enough, they will hunt themselves.

STATISTICIANS hunt the 1st animal they see N times and call it an elephant.

CONSULTANTS don't hunt elephants, and many have never hunted anything
at all, but they can be hired by the hour to advise those people who
do. OPERATIONS RESEARCH CONSULTANTS can also measure the correlation
of hat size and bullet color to the efficiency of elephant-hunting
strategies, if someone else will only identify the elephants.

LAWYERS don't hunt elephants, but they do follow the herds around
arguing about who owns the droppings.  SOFTWARE LAWYERS will claim
that they own an entire herd based on the look and feel of one
dropping.

VICE PRESIDENTS of engineering, research and development try hard to
hunt elephants, but their staffs are designed to prevent it.  When the
V.P. does get to hunt elephants, the staff will try to ensure that all
possible elephants are completely prehunted before the V.P. sees
them. If the V.P. does see a nonprehunted elephant, the staff will
(1) compliment the V.P.'s keen eyesight and
(2) enlarge itself to prevent any recurrence.

SENIOR MANAGERS set broad elephant-hunting policy based on the
assumption that elephants are just like field mice, but with deeper
voices.

QUALITY ASSURANCE INSPECTORS ignore the elephants and look for
mistakes the other hunters made when they were packing the jeep.

SALESPEOPLE don't hunt elephants, but spend their time selling
elephants they haven't caught, for delivery two days before the season
opens.  SOFTWARE SALESPEOPLE ship the first thing they catch and write
up an invoice for an elephant.  HARDWARE SALESPEOPLE catch rabbits,
paint them gray, and sell them as Desktop Elephants.

LOGICIANS hunt elephants by drawing a circle on the ground with a
stick.  That circle contains the NULL set of elephants, and outside
the circle contains the complete set of elephants.  Then they invert
the sets and all the elephants are now within the circle.

C PROGRAMMERS search for the first animal, usually by way of pointers,
and then typecast it to that of an elephant

UNIX PROGRAMMERS can't hunt elephants.  They aren't priveledged enough.