You can say that it can be an objective fact, though, that the majority of 'good developers' considers all that stuff poor style. Which is what I get from readi

You can say that it can be an objective fact, though, that the majority of 'good developers' considers all that stuff poor style. Which is what I get from reading that book. If they don't intend to imply that, they should write it in a different way. The authors of various other books on various other programming languages are able to do that.