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What is the difference between “Syntax” and “Syntactic Sugar”
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The Wikipedia page on Syntactic Sugar states:
In computer science, syntactic sugar is syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. ...
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Are there any compilers that attempt to fix syntax errors on their own?
I heard a while back that there used to be a compiler that attempted to fix syntax errors by analyzing context and inferring what was intended.
Does such a compiler really exist? Obviously it has ...
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Is there a language that transcompiles to C with a better syntax? [closed]
CoffeeScript is a language with a very clean Ruby-like syntax that transcompiles to JavaScript. Does the same thing exists with C? Then writing more readable and as fast as original C programs would ...
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Writing a superset of a programming language as a transcompiler
My idea is to write a superset of C# (but question is not language-specific), so that it source-to-source compiles (transcompiles) to C# itself (fall-through switch clauses, default method parameters ...
