Well, one could argue that copy-on-write filesystems are all about
persistent immutable structures.
A cornerstone of most FP patterns nowadays.

(no, not "persistent" as in Hibernate, but this kind of persistent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure)


On 14 July 2010 15:00, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Functional level programming is very useful at the system level
> > implementations.
>
> Hmm... because many kernels and device drivers make use of FP?
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