The expression-ness of C really sets it apart from even its successors. Declarations look like expressions, everything does. You can see in C code from the time

The expression-ness of C really sets it apart from even its successors. Declarations look like expressions, everything does. You can see in C code from the time how heavily expressions are used. C++, Java, etc. all added a bunch of new keywords to the syntax that make it much more like Pascal or other 'normal' languages. The culture of those languages leans much more towards statements as well.