platforms.</p>
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<h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="some-differences-in-the-modeling-languages">Some differences in the modeling languages</h2>
<p>The BUGS modeling language follows an R-like syntax in which line breaks are meaningful. Stan follows the rules of C, in which line breaks are equivalent to spaces, and each statement ends in a semicolon. For example:</p>
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