[coldtea]

I'd bet that he knows that already.

And C++ belongs to the C language family, but one could still say something like "the next great thing would come from a C rather than a C++ like language" (I'm not judging if this is true here, just that it's quite clear what it means).

[pjmlp]

No, because you can have other ML derived languages that are also lazy and strict, without being necessarily based on Haskell.