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They likely mean the pascal-like syntax



Standard Pascal has 35 reserved words compared to ANSI C 89 which has 32. Not a big difference in terms of English-heaviness.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Standard_Pascal

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/keyword


Pascal uses words in a lot of places where C uses symbols




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