Why do chickens make bad programmers?
They keep laying objects but never garbage collecting the shells.
Joke analysis
Technique: Tech reference. The humor depends on a shared piece of technical knowledge. If you know it, you laugh. If you do not, you nod politely at a chicken.
Our panel of humor specialists, all of them hens, scored this one 3 out of 5 on the groan scale. 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚
Reception
7,882 readers groaned. 730 chuckled. Zero foxes reported laughing.
Best told at
Wedding toasts at the barn, or incident calls (only after resolution). Contains traces of corn.
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