While Ada is not formally a Pascal dialect, it arguably has more influence from Pascal than from the earlier ALGOL (which also influenced Pascal; it has keyword

While Ada is not formally a Pascal dialect, it arguably has more influence from Pascal than from the earlier ALGOL (which also influenced Pascal; it has keywords like PROCEDURE, BEGIN and END) and Simula. A Pascal-family developer can more easily pick up Ada than, say, a C programmer; the Pascal family already has TYPE, VAR, ranges, records, etc. From the 1983 Ada reference manual [1]: Another significant simplification of the design work resulted from earlier experience acquired by several successful Pascal derivatives developed with similar goals. These are the languages Euclid, Lis, Mesa, Modula, and Sue. Many of the key ideas and syntactic forms developed in these languages have counterparts in Ada. Several existing languages such as Algol 68 and Simula, and also recent research languages such as Alphard and Clu, influenced this language in several respects, although to a lesser degree than did the Pascal family. Ada was widely considered as being an evolution of Pascal at the time (e.g. [2]). [1] http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/lrm-01-03.html http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/lrm-01-03.html [2] https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article-pdf/25/2/248/1080494/250248.pdf https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article-pdf/25/2/248/1080494...