> very abstract things A C macro with literals that lacks referential transparency: #define MULTIPLY(x, y) x * y int result = MULTIPLY(2 + 3, 4); // 14 N

> very abstract things A C macro with literals that lacks referential transparency: #define MULTIPLY(x, y) x * y int result = MULTIPLY(2 + 3, 4); // 14 Not knowing what something means does not make it bad, which is what I'm assuming you meant given how you phrased your sentence. Having a shared language of patterns and problems that occur in programming is a good thing. Ridiculing such terminology on the basis of "that group of programmers sure are weird" is pointless and counter productive.