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>maybe pascal syntax was also parsing friendly..

Yep, designed to be single pass, recursive descent friendly




And despite being single pass, you could call functions and procedures before you defined them (later in the code), by using the forward declaration feature of Pascal.

Because of this feature, the language could also support mutually recursive functions, which some other languages might not have been able to (not sure).




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