Talk:Syntax (computer science): Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 11:04, 24 January 2009
This is way too abstruse and formal. I think of syntax as the "grammar" of computer programming. Like, how do you write a loop?
Java example: (for int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { System.out.println(i); }
That will print the first ten natural numbers (0 to 9) on the user's console. The syntax to do the same thing is very similar in C or PHP. It has been said that the curly brace family of programming languages share a common syntax.
BASIC uses a different syntax to express the same idea (or do the same thing).
For i = 0 to 9 Debug.Print i Next i
Or am I just mixed up about what the word syntax means? --Ed Poor 17:04, 24 January 2009 (UTC)