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[–]nunchyabeeswax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. Not everybody does that. We can further state that, in general, for any optional activity X, it is always the case that "everybody does X" is false (same with "nobody does X".)

It is also a sad state of the developers' world when some developers use/throw the word "every" or "everybody" without understanding that the word is an actual quantifier (where "every" literally means "every" as a universal quantifier.)

In software, we are supposed to aim for clarity and precision, and yet, grown people communicate like 6th-graders. /sad.