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Tag Name "Syntactic" (5)

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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan Perlis
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You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
Bill Joy
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The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.
Noam Chomsky
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You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.
Christopher Strachey
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Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.
Noam Chomsky