I'm not going to mention all of them, but you obviously noticed that I 
mentioned DO.

Are you seriously claiming that "DO K = 1 TO 10 BY 2;" looks more like "DO 10 K 
= 1, 10, 2 " than it does like "for K := 1 step 2 until 10 do"?


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> You claimed that a lot of things came from FORTRAN that don'r look remotely 
> like FORTRAN syntax,

Name them.

> some of which look like Algol 60. A good example is the DO statement,
> which looks a lot more like an Algol for statement than a FORTRAN DO.

Try
DO 10 K = 1, 10            ->    DO K = 1 TO 10;
DO 10 K = 1, 10, 2        ->    DO K = 1 TO 10 BY 2;

> Some of what you claimed came from FORTRAN doesn't even exist in PL/I.

Name them.

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