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What's the difference between syntax and semantics?
Semantics ~ Meaning
Syntax ~ Symbolic representation
So two programs written in different languages could do the same thing (semantics) but the symbols used to write the program would be different (syntax … A compiler will check your syntax for you (compile-time errors), and derive the semantics from the language rules (mapping the syntax to machine instructions say), but won't find all the semantic errors …
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