[lionkor]

They likely mean the pascal-like syntax

[augustk]

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

[lionkor]

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