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'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 cagece tats 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."
--"Edwin E. Bobrow" <EdBobrow@compuserve.com>
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