What about Pascal? Seems like a simple, block-based language with the same functionality as C. Apparently, the only complaint against it is that its users like to eat quiche.
The type system, and control flow structures, were more strict and allowed less "abuse" (flexibility) than C. Strings were fixed-length arrays of chars, which was also less flexible than strings in C. Also people felt the begin-end block syntax less fashionable than C's {}.
No unified standard across implementations, modern implementation dominated by a single vendor (Delphi) with an aging userbase and downward trend.
And when you dig into the details of Delphi, you'll find various compromises caused by competitive pressure pulling one direction, backward compatibility pulling in the other.
