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When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Eric S. Raymond
Sugar, Language, Programming
Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.46, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

Eric S. Raymond
Language, Implementation
"What a Modern Collaboration Toolkit Looks Like". Emacs-devel thread, lists.gnu.org. December 30, 2007.

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

Eric S. Raymond
Alternatives, Layers, Language
Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.326, Addison-Wesley Professional

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