Talk:Syntax (computer science)

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)