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

[QAston via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 10:10:22 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> 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+=.

Sokal affair is just a demonstration of how far detached from 
reality are postmodernists, refering to cited post. I'm all for 
parodies like this, no idea why you think otherwise.