programming language semantics

The field concerned with the rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages

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Also known as semantics · formal semantics · program semantics

Subclass of: semantics
, computer science
, programming language theory

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In programming language theory, semantics is the rigorous mathematical logic study of the meaning of programming languages. Semantics assigns computational meaning to valid strings in a programming language syntax. It is closely related to, and often crosses over with, the semantics of mathematical proofs.

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Different from: computational semantics
formal semantics

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