Recently someone was making a claim that semantics and syntax are by far the most important parts of knowing a language, I have to say I disagree almost completely. Knowing syntax and semantics of a language is almost useless — for instance I can write you some python (I am familiar with the syntax, definitions, indentation, etc.), but I could hardly implement a common search algorithm that I could implement in C, or heck even assembly. When you start learning a language the semantics and syntax are important.More ... >>