A tourist walked
into a pet shop and was looking at the
animals on display. While he was there, another customer
walked in and went over to a cage at the side of the shop
and took out a monkey.
He fit a collar and leash, handed it to the customer,
saying, "That'll be $5000." The customer paid and walked
out with his monkey.
Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said,
"That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only
a few hundred dollars. Why did it cost so much?"
The shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can program in
C - very fast, tight code, no bugs, well worth the
money."
The tourist looked at the monkey in another cage. "
That one's even more expensive - $10,000! What
does it do?"
"Oh, that one's a C++ monkey; it can manage
object-oriented programming, Visual C++, even some
Java. All the really useful stuff," said the
shopkeeper.
The tourist looked around for a little longer and
saw a third monkey in a cage of its own. The price
tag around its neck read $50,000. He gasped
to the shopkeeper, "That one costs more than all
the others put together! What on earth does it do?"
The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen
it do anything, but it says it's a consultant."
