On the importance of being syntactical

According to unsourced rumour, Oscar Wilde once said,

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Some might say that proves Wilde’s attention to detail. Cynics might say he was just showing off. Me, I think Oscar Wilde wrote JavaScript.

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