Here is the "official" history of F#: https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-draft-1.pd...

ReleaseCandidat on May 31, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why F# evangelism isn't working (2015)

Here is the "official" history of F#: https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-draft-1.pdf

Don Syme began with a port of Haskell to .Net, but SPJ convinced him that this is a bad idea, so he did choose OCaml. ("The Decision to Create F#", Page 9)