"In computer science, syntactic sugar is syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human use: things can be expressed more clearly, more concisely, or in an alternative style that some may prefer." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar
On my previous team at Google, I spent 3 months writing C (working on the Linux Kernel Library), before we suddenly found ourselves needing C++ — we wanted to write a testing tool that could…