Citations:macrophobia

English citations of macrophobia

Fear of something big

R.P. Agarwala (1945) Eastern Economist: “Man will sooner discover a cure for cancer than for macrophobia and microphilia.”

Fear of macros

2000, John A. Grant, “wierd visual c++ link error.”, in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32‎^[1] (Usenet):

A certain amount of macrophobia is a good thing, because macros can be used to write unreadable and unmaintainable code.

2005, Howard Schreier, “OT: Things to ponder when you program”, in comp.soft-sys.sas‎^[2] (Usenet):

The suffix "itis" means "inflammation of".
So I think what Quentin had was macrophilia, etc.
Some folks have macrophobia.