[louthy]

Of course you could do many things to make C# closer to F# (I've devoted a whole library to coercing it [1]). My preferred approach would be:

    var x = ... 
        ? Foo + frob()
        : Baz;

Or to be truer to the original (using my lib):

    var x = ...
        ? map(frob(), a => Foo + a)
        : Baz;

But the idioms of the language mean that in the real world you see the ugly version with the associated risks of uninitialised variables. I applaud the C# team for the direction they're taking. I suspect C# will end up closer to Scala than it will to F#, which isn't a bad niche for it to be.

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext

[noblethrasher]

Agreed that C# will probably end up closer to Scala. For instance, it's already more straight-forward and elegant to simulate and use type classes/traits in C# than it is in F#.