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> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 03:30:10PM +0200, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> >> Name two computer languages in which `end` but not `begin` has syntactic
> >> significance.
> >
> > Lua, Basic.
> 
> Also, I think, Fortran. Which is probably what inspired Lua here?

Lua got this from Modula 2. Modula 2 does have BEGIN, but it does
not use it for control structures:

   WHILE Index < 5 DO
      Index := Index + 1;
      WriteInt(Index,5);
   END;

-- Roberto