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

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On Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 09:28:27 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 18:17:57 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
>>
>> Poe's law strikes again!
>>
>> Really though, deadalnix is being ultra-sarcastic. Check out 
>> his more serious comments from the last thread touching on 
>> this subject, if you want to know what he really thinks:
>>     
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/wongmdtjgsgsmxmyuqhi@forum.dlang.org
>
> Yup. How sad it is that gibberish nonsense can actually looks 
> like it is being written seriously.

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. On the 
other hand, having a boogeyman to blame everything on (I didn't 
succeed as a programmer because the evil patriarch put braces in 
there) is so appealing to more and more people.

C+=[2](someone remade the repo after ban from github/bitbucket) 
is just one more parody that's going to become reality. I could 
even see marketing such a programming language right now, with 
getting politicians and educational institutions to support it. 
Who knows, maybe "research" done in this thread is laying grounds 
just for that. Hopefully, whoever uses that card first does a 
decent job in creating their "inclusive" language and we won't 
end up with js/php hybrid with rough and fuzzy sets as primitives 
(you know, to get rid of rigid maleness).

https://github.com/ErisBlastar/cplusequality