Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!killer!texbell!bellcore!clyde!watmath!watdragon!gvcormack From: gvcormack@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Gordon V. Cormack) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Origin of the term "syntactic sugar" Keywords: syntax Message-ID: <9514@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 6 Nov 88 16:55:21 GMT References: <444@grand.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 12 In article <444@grand.UUCP>, day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes: > > Does anyone know the origin of the term "syntactic sugar"? > > --dave yost Landin "The next 700 programming languages" CACM 1964 -- Gordon V. Cormack CS Dept, University of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1 gvcormack@waterloo { .CSNET or .CDN or .EDU } gvcormack@uwaterloo.CA gvcormack@water { UUCP or BITNET }