A tourist walked into a pet shop

  


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.”

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