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Their wordsthe landscape of educational materials out there still overwhelmingly falls into the "objectively bad" category
Their wordsLike a good compressor, I don't reuse anything until I have at least two instances of it occurring.
Their wordsThis is crucial for efficiency, because if you only have one example, or worse, no examples (in the case of code written preemptively), then you are very likely to make mistakes in the way you write it and end up with code that isn't conveniently reusable.
Their wordsCode is procedurally oriented, and the "objects" are simply constructs that arise that allow procedures to be reused.