[hencoappel]

C family here refers to syntax style. In this case the general use of curly braces to denote blocks and often semicolons to denote end of statements. Another example of such a family would be the ML language family with languages like Haskell and F Sharp.

[akkad33]

Is Haskell in ML family? I know Fsharp and Ocaml are but Haskell seems to be very different from them synctically with the only similarity being that it is functional