Comment by pg

When I found myself reading sentences like this

    Citation itself often presents as a modality, 
    with an associated degree of confidence.

I started to wonder if this article was a practical joke. Why was someone writing about programming using the pompous language of literary theory? Was someone trying to pull a Sokal? Then I saw the endnote.

(I realize this is only DH2, but it's such an extreme case that I can't help thinking how lucky we are not to have programming ordinarily discussed in this way.)