I agree. The first time I saw F#, I was immediately concerned about single spaces without any braces/brackets/parens indicating function executions. I stuck it

I agree. The first time I saw F#, I was immediately concerned about single spaces without any braces/brackets/parens indicating function executions. I stuck it out with F#, though, and now I miss that syntax greatly when I have to use other languages. It's surprisingly wonderful (at least in my opinion). Or at least in languages where partial application / currying / composition is easily-available. I suspect that syntax wouldn't be very helpful with languages where that isn't the case.