As far as I can tell, only hobbyist functional programmers try to make everything work with linked lists. Most people who write in functional languages professi

As far as I can tell, only hobbyist functional programmers try to make everything work with linked lists. Most people who write in functional languages professionally know to use the correct data structure for the job, and how to do so (the most common educational resource being Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures).