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by BulgarianIdiot 1108 days ago
Sturgeon's Law: "90 of everything is crap".

It's no surprise that when you make virtually all mainstream programming languages OOP, then there will be a vast amount of bad OOP code out there (as by definition mainstream code then becomes "OOP code").

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I like how you forget the % after 90.

DreamBerd probably allows this.

IIRC, numbers without a percentage sign are assumed to be percentages. Numbers that are not percentages have to be followed by ;% (the semicolon is the NOT operator in DreamBerd).
I think they actually meant that there are 90 crap OOP language implementations and the infinite quantity that remain are ‘not crap’
Maybe you can hoist % symbols like you can hoist variables.

If not, maybe you can hoist the ability to hoist % symbols, before which you can hoist % symbols.

Why waste time type lot char, when few char do trick
Ouch, that is a harsh view. Black & white thinking leads to depression in people with a disposition. Questioning these thoughts helps.

I'm more inclined to follow the bell curve. 10% crap, 40% mediocre but rather bad, 40% mediocre but rather good and 10% great.

> Black & white thinking leads to depression in people with a disposition.

That sounds interesting. Who has researched/written about that?