Here is the "official" history of F#: https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-draft-1.pdf https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-draft-1.pdf Don Syme began with a port of Has

Here is the "official" history of F#: https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-draft-1.pdf https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-draft-1.pdf Don Syme began with a port of Haskell to .Net, but SPJ convinced him that this is a bad idea, so he did choose OCaml. ("The Decision to Create F#", Page 9)