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Pascal-like syntax seemed to have been popular around the time. Outside the Writh languages(Pascal, Modula, Oberon) and Ada, I was reading about CHILL[0] the other day, which is supposedly similar to Ada, but was rather domain specific. Sadly I don't think any modern, free implementations exist.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHILL




Pascal is a simplification from ALGOL, so it is actually most ALGOL derived languages.

C description tends to refer to ALGOL influence, but it just boils down to structured programming and the data types. Syntax has nothing from ALGOL.


VHDL has a quite similar syntax, too.


Indeed VHDL is supposedly based as much as possible on Ada syntax. Naturally you would have several differences due to the purpose of the languages, but they are _very_ similar IMO




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