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Is this meant as a joke, too English-heavy?

I think it’s a reference to keyword heavy in an effort to mimic natural language similar to what COBOL tried to do.

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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