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Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV · 176.3K views · 2017-10-12 · 1:14:52

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Overview

Rich Hickey's talk at Clojure's tenth anniversary on the kind of programs Clojure is designed for. He argues for situated programs that deal with changing requirements, and for dynamic typing and data over static types.

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HN's go-to link in typing debates and for talk lists, and several call it their favorite programming talk even for non-Clojure users.

Recommended by 10 HN people across 10 months · HN mentions 2017–2026

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dominotw · 2020-06 · Strong recommendation

Rich hickey explains at this timestamp in the video, [VIDEO] "The information programming problem" Whole video is gold, is my fav programming talk of all time.

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hden · 2020-02 · Strong recommendation

> Requirements change. Every software engineering project will face this hard problem at some point. Rich Hickey calls this a 'situated' program in his talk from Clojure/Conj 2017, where the program has to deal with information and real-world irregularities for extended periods. While agile disciplines help you from one perspective, your tools (e.g. program language) might also help you solve some of the problems. In this framing, Clojure certainly tries to help where the it matters most. Highly recommended to read the transcript or watch the video, even if you are not interested in the language itself. Video: [VIDEO] Transcript: [LINK]

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afandian · 2018-10 · Strong recommendation

Rich Hickey has a lot of excellent stuff to say. Not only are his ideas philosophically sound, but also real, practical and ready to use in the form of Clojure. This recent review "10 years of Clojure", encapsulates a lot of of the wisdom: [VIDEO]

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