semantics

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the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text

the study of language meaning

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The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules. Fernando J. Corbató

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics. Len Wein

The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs [...] and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel. Robert Floyd

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on. Erik Naggum

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. Willard van Orman Quine

The class Dog is functionally cohesive if its semantics embrace the behavior of a dog, the whole dog, and nothing but the dog. Grady Booch

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