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 to a cage at the
side of the shop, and took out a monkey.  He fit the monkey with a collar and
a leash and 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.
He's very fast, does tight code, no bugs, well worth the money."
The tourist looked at the monkey in another cage.  It was wearing a price tag
on its collar.  "That one's even more expensive! $10,000!  What does it do?"
The shopkeeper said, "Oh, that one's a C++ monkey; it can manage
object-oriented programming, Visual C++, even some Java.  All the really
useful stuff."
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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