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At least it works (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by devilish666@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They probably thought that all their NPCs would be human when they started the game, so they named their NPC class Human. Then they decided to add dogs, but needed them to do a lot of the same things the human NPCs did, so they made the Dog class a subclass of Human.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

it's probably so much worse

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

What is refactoring?

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Object oriented programming was a mistake