[MLton] F# - the future of ML?

[Daniel C. Wang]

BTW another nice thing would be if someone changed the F# frontend to 
parse SML style syntax. I find Ocaml syntax amazingly confusing when 
compared to SML. :)

Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> I realize this is a bit off-topic, but wanted the opinions of the 
> people on this list. :-)
>
> I ran into F# over the weekend and was quite impressed! I've not heard 
> it mentioned here. As introduction, it's Microsoft's implementation of 
> OCaml for .NET. I tried porting a couple CPU intensive pieces of SML 
> code and found that F# was only about 70% slower than MLton.