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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