It's the other way around, language designers go out of their way to conform to C-like syntax in order to cater to programmers of C-like languages. C's syntax

It's the other way around, language designers go out of their way to conform to C-like syntax in order to cater to programmers of C-like languages. C's syntax is a fairly low level, which makes it fairly easy to map to assembly, but not very well suited for representing high level constructs (see C++).