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FSharp - OCaml based .NET functional first multi-paradigm language

It's open sourced and doesn't need Visual Studio, but, even that should be free.

http://fsharp.org/

Language site. Great starting point to beginning information.

• How to install and start with FSharp on Windows
• Ways to learn FSharp

http://fslab.org/

Toolkit for data science and machine learning.

• Charting Libs
• Libs for accessing many standard file formats

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming

A decent reference for language structres.

Visual Studio Community Edition (free!)

http://exercism.io/

crowd-sourced peer-review of exercies I love to use to learn a new language.