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From: keithc@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Keith Clarke)
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Subject: Re: I Hate "Syntactic Sugar"
Message-ID: <193@cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 09:54:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  1 09:54:42 1986
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Someone, I can't remember who, suggested that the term "syntactic sugar"
was coined by Peter Landin. I asked Peter, and he says that as
far as he knows he was the first to use it. He confirms that
his intention was to take a gentle dig at people who were
designing whizzo new programming languages by varying the
syntax and giving little or no thought to semantics.