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

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 21:20:36 UTC, QAston wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
>
> I think IT is going to be more resistant to this nonsense than 
> social sciences. It is more competitive and verified by 
> customers, so at least in theory the worst ideas will die.

Huh? Sokal affair can be prevented by censorship. Do you want it 
in IT? You make it live by making commotion around it.

> C+=[2](someone remade the repo after ban from github/bitbucket) 
> is just one more parody that's going to become reality.

And why C+= should be censored? If people believe there is some 
sort of oppression in programming languages there should be a 
comprehensive answer to that in the form of C+=.