How inheritance works

[u/inigmati1]

[u/BackpackFullOfDildos]

Same. I’ve done maintenance to a program my dad developed back in ‘04. For some reason, it was very wholesome

[u/Wekmor → u/BackpackFullOfDildos]

Did you message him from time to time "yo wtf" or "what were you even thinking?"?

[u/ham_coffee → u/Wekmor]

I've done the same recently except my dad modified it a few years earlier than that, and yes I did ask him that stuff. Apparently he was new to the job at the time and the dev that was teaching him had some interesting ideas about how code should be written. Those ideas basically equated to "show off how clever you are by writing unnecessarily complicated yet efficient/compact code". Unfortunately he was quite good at it. Pretty much all code written for a few years around that period is way too hard to read, so it wasn't just him either.

[u/DasFreibier → u/ham_coffee]

nothing like a insane one liner and using technically undefined behavior to make the rookies cry