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.
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."