Chickens of the Computer World


Assembler Chicken: First it builds the road...

C Chicken: It crosses the road without looking both ways.

C++ Chicken: The chicken wouldn't have to cross the road, you'd simply refer to him on the other side.

COBOL Chicken:
     0001-CHICKEN-CROSSING.
     IF NO-MORE-VEHICLES THEN
     PERFORM 0010-CROSS-THE-ROAD
     VARYING STEPS FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL
     ON-THE-OTHER-SIDE
     ELSE
     GO TO 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSING

Cray Chicken: Crosses faster than any other chicken, but if you don't dip it in liquid nitrogen first, it arrives on the other side fully cooked.

Delphi Chicken: The chicken is dragged across the road and dropped on the other side.

Gopher Chicken: Tried to run, but got flattened by the Web chicken.

Al Gore Chicken: Waiting for completion of NCI ( National Chicken-crossing Infrastructure) and will cross as soon as it's finished, assuming he's re-elected and the Republicans don't gut the program.

Java Chicken: If your road needs to be crossed by a chicken, the server will download one to the other side. (Of course, those are chicklets)

Lotus Chicken: Don't you dare try to cross the road the same way we do!

Mac Chicken: No reasonable chicken owner would want a chicken to cross the road, so there's no way to tell it to.

Microsoft ChickenTM: It's already on both sides of the road. And it just bought the road.

Newton Chicken: Can't cluck, can't fly, and can't lay eggs, but you can carry it across the road in your pocket!

NT Chicken: Will cross the road in June. No, August. September for sure.

OOP Chicken: It doesn't need to cross the road, it just sends a message.

OS/2 Chicken: It crossed the road in style years ago, but it was so quiet that nobody noticed.

Quantum Logic Chicken: The chicken is distributed probabalistically on all sides of the road until you observe it on the side of your course.

VB Chicken: USHighways!TheRoad.cross (aChicken)

Win 95 Chicken: You see different colored feathers while it crosses, but cook it and it still tastes like... chicken.

Web Chicken: Jumps out onto the road, turns right, and just keeps on running.