All languages, whether human or computer, have what is called a syntax. The syntax of a language are the ways in which words and symbols are allowed to go together. For instance, consider the English sentence “I ate the the apple.” That sentence has a syntax error—I put two “the”s in a row. That’s simply not allowed (and nonsensical) in English.
But syntax has a larger role than simply telling you how not to form sentences. It also tells you what a sentence means. For instance, if I say, “I have a yellow ...
