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on May 6, 2019
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A final proposal for Rust await syntax
PL/I is syntactically like Algol, or Pascal, or C with more words and fewer brackets. At heart, it's a "normal" block-structured procedural programming language, which proves that a C clone could adopt the same basic idea.
int_19h
on May 7, 2019
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XQuery is probably a more recent example of that. No reserved words there, just syntax.
https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-30/#nt-bnf
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