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
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."