Book review: “Purely Functional Data Structures”‚ by Chris Okasaki by Hinze, R

Functional Pearl Trouble Shared is Trouble Halved by Bird, R, Hinze, R

“…Shared nodes are created in almost every functional program - for instance, when updating a purely functional data structure - though programmers are seldom aware of this. …”

The design and implementation of the LogicBlox system by Aref, M, ten Cate, B, Green, T, Kimelfeld, B, Olteanu, D, Pasalic, E, Veldhuizen, T, Washburn, G

“…These include: LogiQL, a unified and declarative language based on Datalog; the use of purely functional data structures; novel join processing strategies; advanced incremental maintenance and live programming facilities; a novel concurrency control scheme; and built-in support for prescriptive and predictive analytics.…”