Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 03:48:09 UTC, Joe Duarte wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a social scientist and I'm preparing some studies on the 
> effects of programming language syntax on learning, motivation 
> to pursue programming, as well as any disproportionate effects 
> that PL syntax has on the appeal of programming to women (more 
> on the latter in a separate post).
>

It should be obvious that curly braces are a symbol of 
femininity, and it is why it is often unfairly neglected by 
community of programmers that perpetuate societal schema of 
patriarchal oppression.