Yes we can thank our FDA and Donald Rumsfeld for our government's acceptance of aspartame. Good thing the dangerous plant stevia was banned until 2008 and we had the safe aspartame, thanks Rumsfeld!
Yes, this is true. I mostly liked the play off of "syntactic sugar". I'm trying to think of some concept/implementation that mimics syntactic-sugar yet is ultimately unsatisfying (though not harmful) but it's too early in the morning.
