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• smackfu 14y ago
  You would think, but the same question was closed there as Not Constructive: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/188455/why-do-programming-languages-especially-c-use-curly-braces-and-not-square-ones http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/188455/why-do... Very common on StackExcahnge. A bunch of high rep users swoop in and close questions that don't meet this weeks version of the rules that were decided in the Meta site that only the high rep users read. It reminds me a lot of Wikipedia.
  • Turing_Machine 14y ago
    It reminds me a lot of any human organization that develops a "manager" class. There are a lot of people whose goals in life have more to do with controlling what other people do and making sure that the rules are followed, rather than contributing actual work. You can see the process on a small scale with homeowner's associations. (I put "manager" in quotes because there are good managers out there. Oddly, they're often the ones who are willing to break the rules when they don't make sense).