It's hard to believe now, but there was a time when writing jokes about multi-dispatch inheritance in dynamically typed languages simply wasn't the glamorous, highly paid profession that it is today. Before Slashdot, before User Friendly and the Joy of Tech, before Futurama, before Old Man Murray, before Dilbert, and before "1001 Surefire Gags about C++ That Will Wow Your Klingon Wedding Guests," funny for geeks was a criminally underserved market sector. Biro-drawn cartoon strips were the typical fare, all called something like Just Byting Around or Giga-giggles These would run for a few...
It's hard to believe now, but there was a time when writing jokes about multi-dispatch inheritance in dynamically typed languages simply wasn't the gl...