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Procedure, Begin/End don't come from Cobol. They come from Algol. Wirth worked on Algol-W which is a predecessor language of Pascal.

Cobol postdates Algol so it doesn't make sense to see it as the source of the keyword-based syntax of the Algol and Algol derived languages.



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