Yes some people teach C this way, for a little while, I don’t forget semicolons as much as people around me later seemed too, may or may not be related

I started programming this way as a kid with books and notes that I'd then periodically would be able to enter into a computer to see if it runs.

I programmed this way my first year of community college because I didn't have a computer. I'd retype all of my work in the computer lab.

Me too. And this way you make way fewer bugs, almost none.

It confused me at the time, mainly because I had a class with written-out C and one with written-out Pascal in the same semester. The Pascal prof wouldn't mark off for C syntax but the C one would would mark off for Pascal syntax.

That's what I was referring to, actually.