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by raincole 979 days ago
Syntactic sugar is powerful.

There was a time the China accepted calculus, but rejected Leibniz notations.

It looks this like: https://i.imgur.com/foUem6w.png

Edit: Technically this is still Leibniz notation.

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The phrase "syntactic sugar" implies ease, but it's much more than mere "syntactic sugar" when the notation unlocks further information gain and cognitive advantage.

Cheers!