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From: shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs)
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Subject: Re: I Hate "Syntactic Sugar"
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 13:04:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 13:04:35 1986
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Reply-To: shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs)
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Syntactic sugar has all the right connotations.  Syntax is insignificant
compared to semantics, but a little bit sweetens up what might otherwise
look distasteful.  On the other hand, lots of syntactic sugar will rot
your brains out.  I've had it up to here with trying to absorb the latest
random brain-damaged syntax of the latest language.  Some people really
get into it, but I think they should be kept away from parser generators
(Niklaus Wirth for example).

							stan shebs