Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey

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A thoughtful design retrospective that explains the reasoning behind a language, not just its features.

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Rich Hickey reflects on ten years of Clojure: the problems of real-world 'situated' programs and the design decisions that followed.

Video by ClojureTV, played through YouTube's embedded player.

Part of Clojure / conj 2017, Rich Hickey Talks

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