Quote #156
> Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon.
> -- Guy L. Steele
Actually it was Alan Perlis who said this originally.
Source?
> Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon.
> -- Guy L. Steele
Actually it was Alan Perlis who said this originally.
Source?
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[coined by Peter Landin] Features added
to a language or other formalism to make it `sweeter' for
humans,
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