What is the programming language with syntax like this?

Question

I have some scripts written in proprietary language. I want to know whether there is any language with similar syntax like this ?

    PROCEDURE MY_PROC_NAME DO 
    {
        DECLARE VARIABLE ABC AS NUMBER 
        [ABC] := 123;

        IF ([ABC] = 123) THEN
        {
            WHILE (TRUE) DO
            {
            }
        }
        ELSE
        {
            RETURN
        }
        #a comment
        SomeFunction(123, 456);
        CALL ANOTHER_PROCEDURE;
    }

Thank you.

That's not a lot of code to go on. Do you have a bit more? Maybe some reserved words? — david.pfx, Apr 25 '14 at 11:27
What is your aim? To run the scripts as is or to convert them to another language which you can run? — lhf, Apr 26 '14 at 13:20
@lhf I needed to build a full parser and analyzer for this language. So I thought if there is similar language I could use some free stuff out there. This was written by some old folks, so I think they should have inspired by some old language. — Morpheus, Apr 27 '14 at 02:48
Reminds me a bit of Pascal. But the declarations are different, and Pascal does not use curly braces. — Reto Koradi, Apr 27 '14 at 02:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '14 at 06:00

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That looks a lot like Comal. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMAL

answered Apr 24 '14 at 06:00

Mattias Åslund

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Comal does not use curly-brackets I think. but it is very close. – Morpheus Apr 25 '14 at 05:53
I don't think so. I remember Comal, and it was kind of simplified Pascal. Braces are wrong. – david.pfx Apr 25 '14 at 11:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '14 at 05:13

This is an imperative programming language, with no macro, functional or object-oriented features in the samples provided. It has features borrowed from Pascal (':=') and C ('{}'). The structure is otherwise unremarkable.

There are some distinctive constructs.

PROCEDURE name DO {} to define a procedure (but apparently not a function).
DECLARE VARIABLE name AS type to define a variable.
[ABC] in referring to the contents of a variable.

The lack of a semicolon on the DECLARE line is interesting, but could be a typo.

So, a derivative language probably dating from around the mid to late 1980s. It could even be a dialect of Basic (there were lots of them!).

With some additional code it might be possible to narrow it down further.

What is the programming language with syntax like this?

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