ipecac

Mention of IQ induces reflexive invocation of multiple intelligences like ipecac, but IQ-style intelligence is directly relevant to programming.

We don't have to say such things, because the syntactic sirup of ipecac and sputtering line noise of perl code speaks for itself.

There are plenty of other examples of drugs where the prescribing/usage trend has changed because of newly discovered risks: barbiturates, ipecac syrup, opioids.

I'm pretty serious, in that I can tell he's got a legit point with a lot of his, um, 'activities' and yet the presentation is about as appetizing as ipecac.

This is not digital fentanyl, its more like digital Ipecac syrup.

Python has syntactic sugar, but Perl has syntactic syrup of ipecac.

Contrary to this person's blog, doctors of the 19th century knew the difference between croup and diptheria, and used syrup of Ipecac to treat croup.

I heard they experimented with lacing sheep carcasses with ipecac syrup in Africa to keep the lions away, and it worked.

It doesn't actually have arrays or strings as objects, they're just syntactic sugar (more like syntactic syrup of ipecac), and [] doesn't send a message.

I swear there was one HN thread recently where the majority of comments declared the Oculus a mere substitute for ipecac syrup.

Fascinating technology, perhaps, but who wants digital ipecac?

You sound like one of those people who complains about hating Lisp because it has too many parenthesis, then goes and writes code in bash or perl with so much punctuation and different kinds of parens and brackets and braces and single letter abbreviations and syntactic syrup of ipecac, that it looks like you lifted the phone out of your 300 baud modem's acoustic coupler and shouted into it.

We used syrup of ipecac for hundreds of years, until we concluded "I _think_ the side effects from the ipecac are probably worse than the thing we wanted them to expel".

Many languages like Ruby have sweet "Syntactic Sugar", but Raku has "Syntactic Syrup of Ipecac".

And then there's Perl's "syntactic syrup of ipecac".

I just thought if we're talking about "Syntactic Syrup of Ipecac":D we can as well take it to the extreme, just to show how sugary Raku can really be (if you want).

Perl also flagrantly violates the Principle of Least Nausea, with all its emetic Syntactic Syrup of Ipecac.

Whereas Perl uses Syntactic Syrup of Ipecac.