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some differences:

- consume and produce .net libraries (everything c# can do except NullReferenceException)

- type providers, explore and use an api, strogly typed but easier than dynamic (example http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2013/01/30/twelve-type... or http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/library/Freebase.html or http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/library/CsvProvider.html)

- computation expression, easier to create like attempt/maybe and some builtin like async/query

- concurrency and async (battle tested multicore/threading/async using .net runtime)

- light syntax as default, like python (whitespace). ocaml like syntax can be used but is not idiomatic

- .net runtime and mono, really good vm

- overloading operators (operators are function), so + instead of multiple function like + and +.

try it

- user groups list http://c4fsharp.net/groups.html

- browser http://www.tryfsharp.org/

- more info fsharp.org

- open source http://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp (vs stuff) or http://github.com/fsharp/fsharp (cross plat)



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