Software Developer Monkey

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 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. 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 other put together! What on earth does it do?”

The shopkeeper replied,

“Well, I haven’t actually seen it doing anything, but the other monkeys call him the project manager.”