It can be as terse as you want it to be. The bigger virtues are its speed, language features, and the environment. F# interactive is what powershell/ISE wants

It can be as terse as you want it to be. The bigger virtues are its speed, language features, and the environment. F# interactive is what powershell/ISE wants to be, when it grows up and drinks the magic potion of awesomeness.