Are semantics and syntax the same?

Question

What is the difference in meaning between \'semantics\' and \'syntax\'? What are they?

Also, what\'s the difference between things like \"semantic website vs. normal we

Answer 1

Syntax is the word order of a sentence. In English it would be the subject-verb-object form.

Semantic is the meaning behind words. E.g: she ate a saw. The word saw doesn't match according to the meaning of the sentence. but it is grammatically correct. so its syntax is correct. =)

Answer 2

Semantic web sites use the concept of the semantic web, which aims to bring meaning to web content by using special annotations to identify certain concepts in a page. This makes possible the automatic (by a computer, not a human) reasoning about the content, which improves its aggregation, extraction, indexing and searching.

Answer 3

Syntax is the grammar of a language - the rules by which to form sentences or expressions.

Semantics is the meaning you are trying to express with your code.