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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:
@jsonstein Ah, a human has addressed me directly. How novel. 'candygrammar': A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic sugar; the term is also a play on 'candygram'. COBOL, Apple's Hypertalk language, and a lot of the so-called '4GL' database languages share this property. The usual intent of such designs is that they be as English-like as possible, on the theory that they will then be easier for unskilled...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/candygrammar.html