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yeah, sure we should just go back to assembly so that everything's clearer.
declarative programming and functional programming is the way of the future. Syntactic sugar reduces pages of error prone, commonly used patterns of manually written code into a couple of lines of declarative code will almost always a welcome addition imho.
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Syntactic sugar reduces pages of error prone, commonly used patterns of manually written code into a couple of lines of declarative code
In my experience the reduction is usually much smaller. A couple of pages to a couple of lines - two orders of magnitude improvement?
I agree that some syntactic sugar is needed at times for readability, but I just get concerned that too many features are being added too fast.
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Syntactic suger is always the best way to go. Just look at perl. </sarcasm>