> I think it’s time to give syntax and writing the time and respect it deserves. Before I became a programmer, I did Latin at school - the whold fiddliness of

> I think it’s time to give syntax and writing the time and respect it deserves. Before I became a programmer, I did Latin at school - the whold fiddliness of endings/cases was a great preparation. We frequently used terms for "syntax", "parse" and "[parse] tree" in class. This approach probably doesn't scale, but it worked really well for me.