I am slightly familiar with SML, OCaml, and F#. I like F# and might use it sometimes if I were interested in developing on .NET/Mono. However, while F# is good

I am slightly familiar with SML, OCaml, and F#. I like F# and might use it sometimes if I were interested in developing on .NET/Mono. However, while F# is good for numerical analysis, it is not so good for the kind of interactive, exploratory work that Matlab and R are designed for.