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From: skh@hpclskh.HP.COM
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Subject: Re: Origin of the term "syntactic sugar"
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Date: 7 Nov 88 17:39:21 GMT
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Re: origin of "syntactic sugar"

   As I recall, the term was made popular by Frank DeRemer.  Try one of the
following sources:
   Practical Translators for LR(k) languages, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of E.E.,
       MIT (1969)
   Simple LR(k) grammars, CACM 14(7), pp. 453-460, July 1971

If DeRemer did not invent the term, its origin can probably be found from there.
Note that these are among the earliest works on usable LR parsing.

Stewart Hill
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