Syntactic Sugar - Criticism

Criticism

Some programmers feel that these syntax usability features are either unimportant or outright frivolous. For example, Alan Perlis once quipped, in a reference to bracket-delimited languages, that "syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon". (See Epigrams on Programming.)

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