F# on Azure

F# is being built for the cloud.  Azure Functions supports functions-as-a-service.

Haskell Vs Erlang

Haskell and Erlang are both functional programming languages. Erlang has multithreading built in and has been historically more industry focused with its roots in the telecoms industry. F# is another functional language that supports concurrency through the async computation expression.

PDC 2008 in October in Los Angeles

The Microsoft PDC was where Avalon (WPF) was first announced in 2003. This year it's taking place at the LA Convention Center and will cover multi-core programming on Windows, Silverlight (MS version of Flash) and Charles Petzold presenting WPF and XAML. They will also cover F# and MS Cloud platform.

Find out more about F# here:
http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/fsharp.aspx