Re: Origin of the term "syntactic sugar"

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From: Gordon V. Cormack
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1988 16:55

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In article <444@grand.UUCP>, day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes:
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> Does anyone know the origin of the term "syntactic sugar"?
> 
>  --dave yost

Landin "The next 700 programming languages" CACM 1964
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From: gvcormack@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Gordon V. Cormack)
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Subject: Re: Origin of the term "syntactic sugar"
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