Inheritance Memes

The joke here is a brilliant double entendre about inheritance. The first person mentions inheriting a COBOL codebase last touched by someone's mom in the 90s (literal inheritance), while the reply points out that's not how programming inheritance works (you know, the OOP concept where Child extends Parent, not where your actual parent leaves you legacy code). Nothing says "congratulations on your new job" quite like being handed 30-year-old COBOL that nobody understands anymore. The real inheritance tax is the mental breakdown you'll have trying to figure out why everything is in ALL CAPS and what PERFORM VARYING actually does.

DARLING, the AUDACITY of comparing Object-Oriented Programming to communism is just *chef's kiss* MAGNIFICENT! 💅 OOP promises us this UTOPIAN DREAMLAND of beautiful encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism—a coding PARADISE where everything is neatly organized and maintainable! The FANTASY! The ROMANCE! But then reality SLAPS US IN THE FACE with inheritance hierarchies deeper than my existential crisis, design patterns more convoluted than my love life, and codebases so bloated they need their own ZIP code! And poor Jesse's face at the end? That's LITERALLY every functional programmer when an OOP evangelist starts preaching about their "elegant solutions." HONEY, THE DRAMA! 💀

Just another day hunting for that one useful function in your codebase, only to unmask yet another AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean. Functional programmers smugly sipping tea somewhere while OOP developers keep wrestling with class hierarchies deeper than their project's technical debt. The real villain isn't the ghost - it's the architecture astronaut who decided every function needs to be wrapped in six layers of inheritance.