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From: hjb@otter.hple.hp.com (Harry Barman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Origin of the term "syntactic sugar"
Message-ID: <2400018@otter.hple.hp.com>
Date: 7 Nov 88 10:12:23 GMT
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I first saw the term used in the CLU reference manual.  The manual was first
published as an MIT Tech report (1978?). (p 43 in the Springer Verlag version).

Cheers,

Harry