annoying cron job question

How would i set a time delay up for a cron job?
as stupid as that looks on first glance, if i had two programs start on reboot and i wanted the second to definatly start after the other was running, how do you go about this?

like is there some method of setting up a time delay for the second program?

OR maybe im just not getting it, and linux reads the crontabs file step by step and waits for the first program to be "fully up and running" before the next step in the crontab file?

[Prometheum]

Use a combination of uptime(1), sed(1), and at(1) to have the second script run however much after the first that you want.

[Zok]

Are the programs going to continue running or just run once each? Either way, execution by proxy with a shell script will work wonders. Write a shell script that waits N seconds before running program 2. By that time program 1 will have run. Either that, or have the shell script only run program 2 if it gets a proper return from 'ps' indicating that program 1 is running.