Pascal, ...
Yes, probably so. It was a statement separator, and not a terminator. And since a null statement was not allowed, a dangling separator was a syntax error.
I recall working on various proprietary systems that used a derivative of Pascal (probably because in the beginning "engineers" weren't expected to be "programmers" of any skill). And the implementers took the standard to heart, at least as far as syntax. But adding the Pascalish features, such as records and sets and pointers, was usually left off. So it was often little more than Basic with a different syntax.
Which also reminds me of one of the TI calculators that was programmable in BASIC (which one?). There was a ROM module that added Pascal -- but it was just a syntax mapper, and was stuck with the BASIC features only.
-QM
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