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These two things are related in that autocorrection tends to create de-facto loose syntax. Once programmers become aware of it and it becomes part of the language as it is used, the language specification becomes more complicated - and possibly extremely so, as every edge case between what the current parser can and cannot correct correctly becomes part of that specification.



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