That comment was obvious hyperbole on an internet message board, not production code, and even then it's a terrible analogy because I actually typed it, I didn'

That comment was obvious hyperbole on an internet message board, not production code, and even then it's a terrible analogy because I actually typed it, I didn't use some inscrutable emoji that you then had to cut and paste. Also the idea that "people in the know" write code like this is absurd - I've worked with mathematicians for more than a decade in languages that support unicode names, and it would never occur to any of them to do idiotic stuff like this. This is terrible practice and always will be.