It began with ALGOL and it ended with Pascal because Modula-2, Ada and Oberon got rid of BEGIN except one in each PROCEDURE after variable definition and before

It began with ALGOL and it ended with Pascal because Modula-2, Ada and Oberon got rid of BEGIN except one in each PROCEDURE after variable definition and before the code begins. In Pascal, an IF statement looked like this: IF <cond> THEN BEGIN <true block> END ELSE BEGIN <false block> END END But Modula-2 and Oberon look like this: IF <cond> THEN <true block>; ELSE <false block>; END And Ada looks like: IF <cond> THEN <true block>; ELSE <false block>; END IF;