Seeing pascal syntax for the first time, I was confused why it looks so overly verbose, like VHDL. It turns out that it was Pascal that rubbed off onto VHDL. Ho

Seeing pascal syntax for the first time, I was confused why it looks so overly verbose, like VHDL. It turns out that it was Pascal that rubbed off onto VHDL. However, this makes me think that pascal style syntax is a very poor choice for software development.