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1. Comments are opened and closed with
{ } /* */ ; ; REM
2: The end. statement signifies the
end of a procedure end of the program beginning of a procedure beginning of the program
3: The write statement sets the cursor at the
end of the line beginning of the next line end of the outputted text beginning of the current line
4: Using the writeln statement, the cursor is positioned at the
5: When printing text using write or writeln, the text is enclosed using
backslashes curly braces double quotes single quotes
6: To print a single quote using write or writeln,
use a double quote use two double quotes preceed it with a backslash preceed it with a single quote
7: Each program statement is terminated with a
newline semi-colon full-stop comma
8: If the program is required to input data from the keyboard, the first line of the program reads
program NAME ( output ); program NAME ( input ); program ( input, output ) NAME; program NAME ( input )
9: If the program is required to input data from the keyboard, and also output data to the console screen, the first line of the program reads
program NAME ( output ); program NAME ( input ); program ( input, output ) NAME; program NAME ( input, output );
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