Re: Origin of the term "syntactic sugar"

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From: Eric Green
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1988 04:11

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in article <444@grand.UUCP>, day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) says:

> Does anyone know the origin of the term "syntactic sugar"?

Alan Perlis once noted that "syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the
semicolon".... maybe that's a start?

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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
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Subject: Re: Origin of the term "syntactic sugar"
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Date: 7 Nov 88 04:11:20 GMT
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