I don't know all to much about other functional languages, as I learned perl -> ruby -> javascript -> little bit C & Java & Go -> now doing Clojure. But I find Clojures collection data structures interesting. The vector (collection like lists or array) type look immutable, but under the hood are trees. When you append to a vector, you seem get a new vector returned.
In reality, you added the new element as a node in a tree. Then just modified pointers to that the new and old version share almost all of the pointers & allocations. With simple arrays or lists, you would allocate every element anew.
Idk if I can properly explain. Found this blog post very interesting and easier to follow: http://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-...
Personally, most things in business I find easily parallelisable. You mostly decouple the I/O parts of something with the logic parts of it. But yeah I still have much to learn. Thanks for the link! Interesting :)
