Having had sugar removed or reduced, especially in reference to software code where syntactic sugar has been simplified to its basic form.
From de- (removal) + sugar (the sweet substance, or in programming, syntax that makes code easier to read). The term 'syntactic sugar' originated in programming in the 1960s to describe convenient syntax that simplifies underlying code.
Programmers borrowed the candy metaphor to describe 'syntactic sugar'—code that tastes sweet to read but is just sweetening underneath. When you desugar it, you're unwrapping the candy to see the actual machine instructions!
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