Monkey story

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 shop
keeper, "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. 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 an engineer."

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