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xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From

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Historians: Contemporaneous documentation of the initial events is often sparse, and in fact people often get testy and uncooperative when we urge better documentation for the historical record.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3127/

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[-] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Wouldn’t “inheritance” be a better answer for the software engineer?

[-] megane_kun@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

“Instantiation” would be my guess.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

This is why recursion is bad, folks. It leads to weird results and often fails to properly terminate.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

But on the other hand, tail recursion is its own reward!

[-] folekaule@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I like Dependent Injection, myself

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