Syntactic sugar gives you cancer of the semi-colon
By
nic
on May 08, 2007
Alan Perlis; he was quite a wit for those who don't know of him.
I think this is true and I really dig languages without a lot of sugar. However, it is not the prevailing view I think. I think people like sugar in programming languages, hence python, ruby, lua, etc... as opposed to scheme and forth.
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Discussion (8)
Hee. My favorite bits in SICP are the footnotes.
D'A
This sounds a bit like a Rolyism if you're not a code head.
Good lord... so it does. I wonder if Roly and Perlis have some relation.
I had my semi-colons excised...
Rorek Bah! Ruby has loads of syntactic sugar: classes, functions, exceptions, for/while loops and so on and so on.
But semi-colons are optional and rarely used. So either they didn't grow uncontrollably, or they were excised because they were cancerous...
Maybe you need falsies?
python gives you full blown colon cancer; indental hell too.