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Posted on March 18, 2019March 18, 2019

In defense of “Syntactic Sugar”

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One of my biggest career pet peeves as a software developer is when I see other developers derisively write “Well, that is just syntactic sugar“ in response to a proposal for improving a programming language. So today I want to write in defense of this often maligned underdog, and explain why syntactic sugar not only …

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