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When Your Family Tree Is Also Your Dependency Tree

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When Your Family Tree Is Also Your Dependency Tree

The family tree of code maintenance! Someone's friend learned COBOL (that ancient language from the 60s still powering banks and government systems) only to inherit a codebase last touched by his actual mother in the 90s. Talk about biological inheritance vs programming inheritance! While OOP enthusiasts would expect to extend a parent class with new methods, this poor soul got literal parental legacy code instead. The real inheritance tax is maintaining your mom's spaghetti code from the Reagan era. Bet those family dinners get awkward when he asks about the lack of documentation.

Grandpa Python: The OG Coding Language

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Grandpa Python: The OG Coding Language

Turns out Python's been silently judging Java for being the "new kid" all along. While everyone's busy arguing about which language is better, Python's sitting there with its reading glasses on like "I remember when you were just a glint in Sun Microsystems' eye." Four years might not seem like much, but in programming years? That's basically a generation gap. No wonder Python looks at Java's enterprise features and just mutters "kids these days with their fancy garbage collection and verbose syntax."