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What are some programming languages that reuse most of the syntax of another (rather than just a few elements of it?)

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[-] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 14 hours ago

@ryujin470@fedia.io Most good languages are a variation of ALGOL, Psacal, or LISP. They have added a lot more syntax, but there are only so many ways to represent blocks (both named and unnamed, calling functions, loops and the other basics within the limits of 7 bit ASCII. Even if you expand any language (including symbols you makeup), those still remains the basics and we have learned from painful experience what makes things bad.

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