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The idea of applying purely functional programming concepts to deployment is not new, see the Nix package manager and the NixOS Linux distribution built on top
by antientropic 13y ago
The idea of applying purely functional programming concepts to deployment is not new, see the Nix package manager and the NixOS Linux distribution built on top of it (http://nixos.org/ http://nixos.org/). This paper explicitly makes the link with functional programming: http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf