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OOP madness? XML? Web scale databases?

Perhaps not superstition but certainly fundamentalist/hype-based thinking.

Chasing hyped up fads seems like the opposite of superstitions from the 80s, no?

I saw an example the other day that escapes annoyingly escapes my mind now, as it has been sort of overwritten by the "why the heck do some people name Makefiles with a capital M!?" pet peeve.

But I'd say a bit of everything listed in TFA. For instance global variables are the type of thing which makes a little voice say "if you do that, something bad will eventually happen". The voice of experience sometimes say things like that, though.

I don't know if I'd call it a superstition exactly, but there's a subset of people who are fine with foo1.plus(foo2) and bar1.plus(bar2) where foo and bar are different types, but for some reason, "foo1 + foo2" and "bar1 + bar2" is "confusing" or somehow evil. It feels a bit like they're superstitious about it. I get a similar vibe from people who have an aversion to static type inference.