COBOL Inheritance Joke

Text on the meme

A friend learned COBOL and received a codebase where the last change was done in the 90s... by. his. mum. that's not how inheritance is supposed to work in programming

What it means

A screenshot of a Twitter exchange jokes about a friend inheriting an old COBOL codebase from his mother, treating inheritance as both receiving something from family and a programming concept. The reply points out that this is not how inheritance is supposed to work in object-oriented programming. EN: A screenshot of a Twitter exchange jokes about a friend inheriting an old COBOL codebase from his mother, treating inheritance as both receiving something from family and a programming concept. The reply points out that this is not how inheritance is supposed to work in object-oriented programming.

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