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6 Responses to “And since you enjoyed that post so much, here’s a phrase really bugging me recently”
It’s a programmer phrase. Best I can figure, it means making the syntax of code nicer. Bet there’s a geek dictionary with it, let’s see…
Oh. Or, Wikipedia: Syntactic sugar is a term coined by Peter J. Landin for additions to the syntax of a computer language that do not affect its functionality but make it “sweeter” for humans to use.
ergh. It’s just such a clunky phrase, though. I hateses it.
October 9th, 2007 01:59
What does it mean?
October 9th, 2007 08:10
It’s a programmer phrase. Best I can figure, it means making the syntax of code nicer. Bet there’s a geek dictionary with it, let’s see…
Oh. Or, Wikipedia: Syntactic sugar is a term coined by Peter J. Landin for additions to the syntax of a computer language that do not affect its functionality but make it “sweeter” for humans to use.
ergh. It’s just such a clunky phrase, though. I hateses it.
October 9th, 2007 10:44
Ahh. You should make something up that’s just as geeky, like “Bandwidthy goodness”.
October 9th, 2007 11:41
Programmer poison sounds like it’d be better for some of these term-coiners to absorb into their system.
October 12th, 2007 22:35
Yeah, the phrase is pretty silly, but list comprehensions still rock.
October 15th, 2007 21:07
And here I thought it was the generic name for Splenda.