[toyotaboy]

No one who knew what they were talking about at Microsoft said F# was for mathematicians and engineers. It's a myth pushed by C# programmers and idiots. It's nonsense and you shouldn't repeat it.

People at Microsoft repeatedly said "Simple Code for Simple Problems". C# programmers don't like repeating that.

[MichaelGG]

Doesn't matter if they didn't know what they're talking about, that was what was written on the Microsoft sites when comparing C#, VB, F#. F# was always pigeonholed into scientific and financial categories, never aimed at general code.

I'm only repeating it to point out that MS itself did poor marketing for F#, clearly favouring C#.

[toyotaboy]

Microsoft didn't promote that idea. Some random people at Microsoft did, a very long time ago. Just forget about it and move on.