[H-GEN] FW: Career advancement

[Brent Wesley]

>  A tourist walks into a pet shop in North Sydney, and is browsing round
> the cages on display. While he's there, another customer walks in and
> says to the shopkeeper, "I will have a C monkey, please".  The
> shopkeeper nods, goes over to the 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 that 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 programming, Visual C++, even some
> 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 $50,000. He gasps to
> the shopkeeper, "That one costs more than all the others put together!
> What on earth does it do?".
> 
> "Well, I really don't know if it does anything, but it says it's a
> contractor."
> 
> 

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