I think they meant squaring the fraction of good macros: 0.1^2 = 0.01, so 99% are crap. As someone who likes and uses cpp quite a bit, I think, if that isn't tr

I think they meant squaring the fraction of good macros: 0.1^2 = 0.01, so 99% are crap. As someone who likes and uses cpp quite a bit, I think, if that isn't true anymore, it's only because most of the people who would have written crap macros have moved to writing python or javascript or whatever instead of C or C++.