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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, 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. 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 other put together! What on earth does it do?" T he
shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it doing anything,
but the other monkeys call him the Project Manager."
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