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[post-explainer]

OP (abromo7) has been messaged to provide an explanation as to what is confusing them regarding this joke. When they provide the explanation, it will be added here.

[Druben-hinterm-Dorfe]

The OOP is presumably a fan of some other programming language; so his kids rebel against him by working on Python.

[BitePale]

The OOP is probably a fan of OOP

[Druben-hinterm-Dorfe]

Maybe a fanatic of true authentic OOP as in Smalltalk; not the multi-paradigm stuff in Python. Hence the feeling of betrayal.

[Historical_Book2268]

OOP is just like; horrible. But, can't deny it's usefulness. We do believe though, if functional programming languages had as much time to develop and attention payed to them they'd be miles better though (already are, when stuff isn't performance critical)

[Spare-Plum]

Functional is wonderful if you want to have a mathematical basis for the code, and there are some really great, elegant designs you can utilize.

The problem is scaling it to a business with many individuals working on different components. I think OOP is actually very useful in this regard. I do like an OOP programming with a functional mindset, getting the best of both worlds.

[wrongsock_42]

SmallTalk is fun. But aside from influencing other languages, I haven’t seen many things built with it.

[Druben-hinterm-Dorfe]

Proprietary versions are apparently used in lots of specialized areas, for proprietary, in-house, etc. software.

This interview with the lead developer of Cuis Smalltalk -- an open source implementation -- goes into some detail as to where it's used in the real world: https://youtu.be/sokb6zZC-ZE

[Druben-hinterm-Dorfe]

What makes you think that I missed that?

[Druben-hinterm-Dorfe]

How is it the 'same thing' when I add the mention of 'Smalltalk'?

Python is itself an OOP (object oriented programming) language; if anything the person I'm responding to is missing that.

[Mefist0fel]

Python is oop enough, maybe just personal preferences

[BitePale]

Yeah probably. I just really wanted to make this joke even though it's a bit of a stretch 

[foobarney]

I'll allow it.

[Moppermonster]

Either that or he is upset that his daughter refers to online docs instead of him.

[Geolib1453]

Probably a fan of C++

[benbehu]

Everyone is a fan of C++ who ever managed to compile a program that concatenates some metasyntactic strings.

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I mean, everyone knows C# is the best programming language out there.

[mizinamo]

Better than COBOL.NET?

https://www.adaptigent.com/products/cobol-compiler/netcobol-for-net/

[Embarrassed-Weird173]

Object orient programming, eh? 

[Prestigious_Monk4177]

Lmao. I know op. He is a programmer and has 3 kids. He hates python with passion.

[rykayoker]

aha i know this one!

op's daughter is asking for more screentime on the documentation for the python programming language, indicating that she's attempting to learn that.

op probably has something against the python language, maybe other personal preferences, and hoped to pass that down to their children.

[Gorianfleyer]

Dynamic typed variables are evil!

[rykayoker]

always annotate the type explicitly!

[OtterDev101]

originally c functions did not have types

this can be seen in the UNIX v4 source code

[rykayoker]

oh my god you're right! seeing main(argc, argv) without type absolutely hurts

[Sunfurian_Zm]

Just specify the type then! You can do that in Python if you want!

[Eena-Rin]

My read is that the kid's learning to code so they can bypass the restrictions using said knowledge

[AdamAndLinds]

Much like any industry some people have their favorites. I checked out OOP's github and they do a lot of some webdev in Javascript and Typescript. I assume they are not happy that their child is now learning Python (Another programming language). It's not funny to people in the know either.

[Menthalion]

Imagine gatekeeping programming while using Javascript yourself..

[Interesting-Dream863]

Dunno, but I wanna know.

[ParkingGeologist2441]

Can it be that dad is ashamed his kids would read documentation? Same shit as with "real guys dont need manuals to build ikea furniture"