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Re:Turbo Pascal Turns 40 by bear8642 on Thursday November 30, 2023 @05:24PM (#38480039)
>maybe pascal syntax was also parsing friendly..

Yep, designed to be single pass, recursive descent friendly

Re:Turbo Pascal Turns 40 by vram22 on Friday December 01, 2023 @02:36AM (#38484169)
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).