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WhatThisMeans: "When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend"?
Eric Raymond gave a list of guidelines for software developers, including this:
When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.
What is that suppose to mean? Can someone provide an example?
The guidelines appeared in his essay titled "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and are perhaps explained in his book, which I don't have a copy of, and don't have time to read right now.
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- green meklarLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
If a programming language is not Turing-complete, that means there's a whole bunch of stuff it can't do, and as a result it probably isn't very useful. So if you're designing a language like that and you want people to use it, you would probably want to dress it up with some nice-looking syntax in order to one, make it easier to use, and/or two, disguise its lack of usefulness.
The quote is sort of tongue-in-cheek, I think.
