From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca   
      
   > What is conventionally called "syntax" is an artifact of the compiler   
   > technology (or maybe of specification technology, see below):   
      
   I disagree here.  It is no accident.  Same as the split between   
   lexical and syntactic analysis, the division between syntax and   
   (static) semantics is an engineering issue: specifying a language is a   
   fairly large amount of work, so you want to split it into simpler   
   parts.   
      
      
           Stefan   
      
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