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From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog)
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Subject: Re: compound statements
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Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 16:56:25 EDT
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In article <5287@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> gaynor@topaz.UUCP writes:
>
>Oh, a couple of languages come to mind.  Particularly Algol (?) and
>its descendants, C, Pascal, and Ada (to name a few biggies).  There
>are plenty of others.  10 pts to the one who can name the most.
>

I would guess Algol doen NOT force you to use BEGIN-END. Simula does
definitely not do it, and as far I know Algol is a true subset of
Simula.
I think the reason why many languages forces you to use BEGIN-END
even for a one-statement body is the sake of readability. (But don't
ask me why a {} increases the readability in C, I don't know that
language luckilly.)
In your original article you wrote you as an inconsistence with
IF-, WHILE- and other compund statements. Let me draw your attention,
that e.g. Ada does not have this inconsistence in a way, since you write
WHILE  <logical-expression> DO
   <statement(s)>
END WHILE;
(With my excuses for potenial errors, Ada is not my every-day language.)
OK, in a procedure you do need a BEGIN also, but I would guess is due
to the declarations.