History
F# originates from Microsoft Research, Cambridge and the language was originally designed and implemented by Don Syme. Andrew Kennedy contributed to the design of units of measure. The F# language and the Visual F# tools for Windows are developed by Microsoft. The F# Software Foundation develop the F# open source compiler and tools based partly on open source releases by the Microsoft Visual F# team.
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