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Pacion
09-23-2004, 05:19 PM
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 do anything, but the other monkeys call him the project manager."

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Source: wilk4.com/humor/humor.htm

peachexploration
09-23-2004, 05:48 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Absolutely hilarious!!!! :lol: :lol:

DWise1
09-24-2004, 02:11 AM
Already being done. Check out Primate Programming Inc. at http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/main.asp.
Recent research in primate programming suggests computing is a task that most higher primates can easily perform. Visual Basic 6.0™ was the preferred IDE for the majority of experiment primate subjects.

As I recall, the various primate species tend to specialize, with baboons specializing in software testing. And while most of their apes can work at your site, they recommend that the baboons don't, for reasons of noise and smell.






BTW, the whole thing is a gag, though the site is real. And they have been contacted by companies very interested in their services. How's that for a weird way of having your job out-sourced?