Editing Syntactic sugar (section)

== Criticism ==
Some programmers feel that these syntax usability features are either unimportant or outright frivolous. Notably, special syntactic forms make a language less uniform and its specification more complex, and may cause problems as programs become large and complex. This view is particularly widespread in the [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] community, as Lisp has very simple and regular syntax, and the surface syntax can easily be modified.{{sfn|Abelson|Sussman|1996|loc=Chapter 1, [https://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf#page=43 footnote 11]}}
For example, [[Alan Perlis]] once quipped in "[[Epigrams on Programming]]", in a reference to [[Curly bracket programming language|bracket-delimited languages]], that "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the [[Semicolon#Programming|semi-colons]]".{{sfn|Perlis|1982|loc=Epigram #3}}