When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar ca…

Eric S. Raymond
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When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend. ✨ Eric S. Raymond (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, p.46, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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