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Re:Announcing a pre-release of F# 3.1 and the Visual F# tool... by chollida1 on Friday June 28, 2013 @12:23PM (#5958815)
I'm not sure if I'm being trolled or not but I'll bite...

A simple 5 second google search would answer your questions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179332/anyone-actually-us...

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/gg634701.aspx

To be honest as to why the answer is often anyone who wants to use an OCaml like syntax but have access the debugging tools of visual studio or mono and access to the libraries written for .Net.

We use it to write our proprietary trading system.

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