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Quote #156 > Syntactic Sugar Leads To Cancer Of The Semicolon.
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> Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon.
> -- Guy L. Steele
Actually it was Alan Perlis who said this originally.
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yntactic sugar: [coined by Peter Landin] n. Features added to a language or other formalism to make it `sweeter' for huma
features which do not affect the expressiveness of the formalism (compare {chrome})....
yntactic sugar n. [coined by Peter Landin] Features added to a language or other formalism to make it `sweeter' for huma
features which do not affect the expressiveness of the formalism (compare chrome)....
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept.
1982...
An excess of syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colo
Quote #31 In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. -- Alan Perli