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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.


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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