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Line 44: * syntax and [[Semantics_(computer_science)\|semantics]] became even more orthogonal, with anonymous routines, a recursive typing system with higher-order functions, etc.; * not only the context-free part, but the full language syntax and semantics were defined formally, in terms of [[Van Wijngaarden grammar]], a formalism designed specifically for this purpose. ALGOL 68's many little-used language features (for example, concurrent and parallel blocks) and its complex system of syntactic shortcuts and automatic type coercions made it unpopular with implementers and gained it a reputation of being ''difficult''. [[Niklaus Wirth]] actually walked out of the design committee to create the simpler [[Pascal (programming language)\|Pascal]] language. {{Multiple image Line 295: \| image8 = Swift logo.svg \| caption8 = Swift \| image9= Kotlin logo (2021-present).svg \| caption9 = Kotlin \| image10 = Typescript.svg