But What Does It Mean?

October 26, 2007 9:57 AM

What is semantics-based programming?

Obviously I've googled the term but I couldn't find a decent definition. Anybody out there know enough about it to give a short but lucid description?

posted by iconjack to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Are you talking about things such as axiomatic semantics and operational semantics?
posted by demiurge at 10:13 AM on October 26, 2007

Sometimes writing xHTML in a structured human-readable manner is referred to as "doing semantic mark-up".
posted by rlef98 at 12:39 PM on October 26, 2007

Could also be related to this (intentional programming). It kind of depends whether you mean something more like "semantics of programs" in which case I think demiurge has it, or more like "semantic intention of programmers".
posted by crocomancer at 1:04 PM on October 26, 2007

Turns out it is this.
posted by iconjack at 5:15 PM on October 26, 2007