Code inheritance, the traditional way
@beyondmachines1 My best friend and I grew up to inherited the projects of each other's parents. Chris-cross legacy sauce (or something)
@catsalad We need a pattern name for that!
@beyondmachines1 @catsalad “Your mom wrote COBOL” — best compliment that sounds like an insult
@beyondmachines1 apropos: Have you heard of the successor to COBOL? It’s called ADD 1 TO COBOL
@beyondmachines1 got to say Anna Baas is an excellent name. 🐏
@beyondmachines1 That's cool. I bet mom is my age. My mother taught COBOL in the early 80's. Many of my peers' 1st job out of college in 98/99 was learning COBOL to fix Y2K issues.
@N1ZZZ @beyondmachines1 I was taught COBOL in the mid 90s for this reason but ended up going elsewhere in my career

@beyondmachines1 oh, this one is making its rounds again? It was @grauhut and his mom
https://x.com/grauhut/status/1000017084435312642

#cobol #inheritance

Grauhut (@grauhut) on X

Ich habe bei einem Kunden COBOL Code gefunden. Gut. Mainframe. Nichts ungewöhnliches. Der letzte Kommentar ist von 1985. Von meiner Mutter.

X (formerly Twitter)

@beyondmachines1 "Bajeezus, Mom, what were you thinking here? Stupid pointer tricks?"

"You have to understand, son, it was a different time."

"All I can think is that while you were telling me to clean my room, you weren't cleaning up your memory links."

@fuzzychef "this is how you talk to your mother?"

@beyondmachines1 #Funfact: I do know that programmer and remember him complaining about it to his mother on Twitter...

  • I just don't have the links to it handy.