Ocaml sold me on the value of functional languages. F# taught me that they could be practical outside of academic projects. Ocaml's standard library is amazin

Ocaml sold me on the value of functional languages. F# taught me that they could be practical outside of academic projects. Ocaml's standard library is amazing, and it has a great developer community, but at the end of the day Ocaml is its own thing. F# had virtually identical syntax, but put all of .NET at my fingertips. I was using it for UDFs in SQLServer, UIs with tables and plots, and a lot more. My brief flirtation with windows ended years ago, but F# remains one of the most positive parts of that experience.