I didn't say that F# was created from scratch, I'm familiar with its heritage. My point was that C# started as a slightly improved Java but the trend in new lan

I didn't say that F# was created from scratch, I'm familiar with its heritage. My point was that C# started as a slightly improved Java but the trend in new language features, particularly in recent years, has shown a strong influence of functional programming in general and F# in particular. Hence the idea that if in some hypothetical universe C# was making changes not constrained by backwards compatibility I would expect it to look more like F# and less like Java.