In what areas might the use of F# be more appropriate than C#? [closed]

Answer 1

A lot of the unit tests for the F# Visual Studio components are written in F#. They run outside VS, mocking the various Visual Studio bits. The ability to cons up anonymous objects that implement interfaces is useful in place of a mocking framework/tool. I can just write

let owpe : string list ref = ref []
let vsOutputWindowPane = 
    { new IVsOutputWindowPane with
        member this.Activate () = err(__LINE__)
        member this.Clear () = owpe := []; 0
        member this.FlushToTaskList () = VSConstants.S_OK
        member this.GetName(pbstrPaneName) = err(__LINE__)
        member this.Hide () = err(__LINE__)
        member this.OutputString(pszOutputString) = owpe := pszOutputString :: !owpe ; 0
        member this.OutputStringThreadSafe(pszOutputString) = owpe := pszOutputString :: !owpe ; 0
        member this.OutputTaskItemString(pszOutputString, nPriority, nCategory, pszSubcategory, nBitmap, pszFilename, nLineNum, pszTaskItemText) = err(__LINE__)
        member this.OutputTaskItemStringEx(pszOutputString, nPriority, nCategory, pszSubcategory, nBitmap, pszFilename, nLineNum, pszTaskItemText, pszLookupKwd) = err(__LINE__)
        member this.SetName(pszPaneName) = err(__LINE__)
    }            
DoSomethingThatNeedsA(vsOutputWindowPane)
assert( !owpe = expectedOutputStringList )

when I need an instance of e.g. an IVsOutputWindowPane to pass to some other component that will eventually be calling OutputString and Clear, and then inspect the string list ref object at the end of the test to see if the expected output was written.