[lmm]

> What is a hard thing that requires better syntax?

Any thing where, for the implementation you can come up with, those extra lines are the difference between fitting a function on a single screen or not. There's a huge difference in readability between a function or class that can fit on a single screen and one that can't.

[mojuba]

To be fair Pascal is more "wider" than longer compared to C, but still it takes more time to read.