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A tourist walked
into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While
he was there another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper,
"I'll have a C monkey please."
The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the
shop, and took out a monkey. He fit a collar and leash and
handed it to the customer, saying, "That will be $5,000."
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 it!"
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. She 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."
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