[2321] in Humor
A Joke for Consultants . . .
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim at ILP Asia-Pacific)
Thu May 21 09:33:11 1998
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:26:59 -0500
To: Humor@MIT.EDU
From: Jim at ILP Asia-Pacific <rose@ilp.mit.edu>
A tourist walks into a pet shop and looks at the animals
on display. While he's there another customer walks in
and says to the shopkeeper, "I'll have a C monkey please".
The shopkeeper nods, goes over to a cage and takes out a
monkey. He fits a collar and leash and hands it to the
customer, saying "That'll be $5000".
The customer pays and walks out with his monkey.
Startled, the tourist goes over to the shopkeeper and says,
"That was a very expensive monkey; most of them are only a
few hundred dollars. Why did it cost so much?".
The shopkeeper answers, "Ah, that monkey can program in C,
very fast, tight code, no bugs, well worth the money."
The tourist looks at another monkey. "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," says the
shopkeeper.
The tourist looks around for a little longer and sees a third
monkey in a cage of its own. The price tag around its neck
reads $50,000. He gasps, "That one costs more than all the
others put together! What on earth does it do?"
The shopkeeper replies, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do
anything, but it says it's a consultant.
