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Everyone reading this speaks multiple computer languages, and knows what a "syntax" is.

The disambiguation between levels (grammars) of syntax is what the above poster was both lamenting and heralding - possibly unaware of it's technical and mathematical necessity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous_grammar#Trivial_lang...




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