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Re:Introduction to Ada by non-entity on Thursday September 03, 2020 @12:56AM (#24360909)
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

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Re:Introduction to Ada by pjmlp on Thursday September 03, 2020 @01:06AM (#24360940)
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.

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Re:Introduction to Ada by nsajko on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:51AM (#24362392)
VHDL has a quite similar syntax, too.
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Re:Introduction to Ada by sguav on Thursday September 03, 2020 @10:30AM (#24364424)
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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