Some of reasons reasons: 1) F# team prefers an ivory tower of pure language design to making killer _new_ products like Akka. 2) Meaningful whitespace is a ma

Some of reasons reasons: 1) F# team prefers an ivory tower of pure language design to making killer _new_ products like Akka. 2) Meaningful whitespace is a matter of taste and not some golden standard. I like my languages with punctuation marks in them, thanks very much. 3) Total global inference and ultimate succinctness is a matter of taste and not some achievement. I don't program in Brainfuck and ML.