 Syntactically, Pascal is much more ALGOL-like than C. English keywords are retained where C uses punctuation symbols – Pascal has codice_5, codice_6, and codice_7 where C uses codice_8, codice_9, and codice_10 for example.However, C is more ALGOL-like than Pascal regarding (simple) declarations, retaining the "type-name" "variable-name" syntax.For example, C can accept declarations at the start of any block, not just the outer block of a function.