this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
1168 points (99.7% liked)

Programmer Humor

25425 readers
992 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I didn’t think COBOL had inheritance.

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

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

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days 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.

load more comments (2 replies)