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F# was originally written by Don Syme, and
is now developed and maintained by Don Syme and James Margetson.
Many other contributors and users are listed on the F# Community page.
Particular people to mention are
Byron Cook,
James Huddleston,
Dominic Cooney,
Robert Pickering,
Satnam Singh,
Tom Ball,
optionsScalper,
Joel Pobar,
Ralf Herbrich,
John Winn,
Tom Minka,
Andrew Kennedy,
to Nick Benton,
Claudio Russo,
and Adam Granicz.
F# is related to the design of Generics for .NET
and thus owes a lot to Andrew Kennedy,
who co-designed generics with Don Syme.
Although F# is a complete re-implementation of an OCaml-like language,
a special thanks go to the OCaml team,
in particular Xavier Leroy,
who agreed that a 'Caml.NET' was a good thing to do
suggested I experiment with language design instead of just
implementing OCaml exactly, and to
Jacques Garrigue who gave
some helpful positive feedback. The OCaml team's work
on both the language and the core foundations of programming
remains an ongoing inspiration and we look forward to
a continued productive relationship.
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