F# was developed from day 1 as an industrial tool. The point is to bring the practical stuff from those... ahem... 'arcane' languages to a platform with industr

F# was developed from day 1 as an industrial tool. The point is to bring the practical stuff from those... ahem... 'arcane' languages to a platform with industrial tooling and an existing ecosystem. F# can be used almost exactly like C#, and the ML-features can be used once understood. While F# encourages immutability it can be used as a mutable language which means lots of familiar algorithms are easy to implement in it.