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Inheritance (lemmy.curiana.net)
submitted 2 weeks ago by ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I didn’t think COBOL had inheritance.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 weeks ago

Hence the roundabout route I guess. Programmers really should stop using it. https://xkcd.com/583/

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For some reason, COBOL has had OOP features since 2002.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

For some reason

It's because "every language must do OOP".

Every SQL engine does it... SWI Prolog seems to have escaped, but COBOL had no chance.