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?"