> Free Pascal is far from simple. It's still much less complex than e.g. Ada or C++, and unfortunately, the language has redundant, competing concepts that are

> Free Pascal is far from simple. It's still much less complex than e.g. Ada or C++, and unfortunately, the language has redundant, competing concepts that are probably explained by - as you say - putting different languages and design styles together; it's definitely not my favorite language. Unfortunately, there was also no complete and correct grammar, so I had to create one myself, and even in this one there are still productions without definition, e.g. array_constant, record_constant and procedural_constant. At least the syntax diagrams were not left recursive, and also removing ambiguous alternatives was straight forward. Surprisingly, the FP language specification does not distinguish between language variants; only the compiler knows different modes. There seems to be a common grammar for all modes.