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Clojure - Rationale

Rich Hickey · by 2 Jan 2018

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  1. It reflects the reality that, for the concurrent programming future, pervasive, unmoderated mutation simply has to go.
  2. Born of simulation, now used for everything, even when inappropriate
  3. Mutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code
  4. Locking is too hard to get right over and over again

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