Is F# still really just another ML flavor? In any way that is meaningful in the real world? Another poster on this thread asserts that F# adoption is happening

Is F# still really just another ML flavor? In any way that is meaningful in the real world? Another poster on this thread asserts that F# adoption is happening in finance, by FP practitioners who would <i>otherwise use unix!</i> My impression (perhaps flawed) is that the main audience for F# are C#, Java and other programmers for whom F# is indeed their first foray in FP. It seems like the imperative/functional hybridization of F# mirrors the Scala effort to market itself as a FP language that imperative/OO folks can understand. I am not espousing a point of view, I am asking for insights about how a large firm like MSFT sees the dev tools market, not trying to poke a stick into other folks' ideas about what the best tools are.