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'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."
Senast ändrad 15/1 2000 Johanna Nählinder