>>A tourist walks into a pet shop in Silicon Valley, and is browsing
>>round the cages on display.  While he's there, another customer walks
>>in and says to the shopkeeper, "I'll have a C monkey, please".  The
>>shopkeeper nods, goes over to a cage at the side of the shop and takes
>>out a monkey. He fits a collar and leash and hands it to the customer,
>>saying "That'll be $5000".  The customer pays and walks out with his
>>monkey.
>>
>>Startled, the tourist goes over to the shopkeeper.
>>"That was a very expensive monkey - most of them are only a few hundred
>>dollars.  Why did it cost so much?"
>>"Ah, that monkey can program in C  - very fast, tight code, no bugs,
>>well worth the money".
>>
>>The tourist looks at the monkeys in the cage.
>>"That one's even more expensive - $10,000 dollars!  What does it do?".
>>"Oh, that one's a C++ monkey; it can manage object oriented design,
>>C++, a bit of Java, all the really useful stuff".
>>
>>The tourist looks round for a little longer and sees a third monkey in
>>a cage on its own.  The price tag round its neck says $150,000.  He
>>gasps to the shopkeeper,
>>"That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth
>>does IT do?"
>>"Well, I don't know if it can do anything, but it says it's a
>>contractor."