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Once you’ve learned to program in one language, learning a similar programming language isn’t all that hard. But, understanding just how to write in the new language takes looking at examples or reading documentation to learn its details. In other words, you need to know the mechanics of putting a program together in the new language. Are the semicolons in the right places? Do you use begin ... end or do you use curly braces (i.e. { and }). Learning how a program is put together is called learning the syntax of the language. Syntax refers to the words and symbols of a language and how to write the symbols down in some meaningful order.
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Lee, K.D. (2014). Syntax. In: Foundations of Programming Languages. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13314-0_2
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