If you are Richard Jones, thank you for showing the world that functional programming can also be used for systems programming! :)

Could you elaborate on this a bit - examples of functional languages in systems programming would be nice.

It's not really systems programming, but we've done a lot of real world business programming in OCaml. Examples:

http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/

http://libguestfs.org/ has a lot of OCaml for internal stuff. The tools are written in Perl, but I wish they were written in OCaml :-)

http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/guestfs-browser/

Another forthcoming tool which I can't mention yet.

More projects here from the company I used to work for:

http://merjis.com/developers

On digging up a bit I found the following - [a] http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/ [b] http://www.cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_a...