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Rich Hickey

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Creator of the Clojure programming language and of Datomic. His rationale for Clojure is one of the few language design documents that argues its case rather than describing its syntax.

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    Our reading

    Pervasive unmoderated mutation has to go if programs are to be concurrent.

    Their wordsIt reflects the reality that, for the concurrent programming future, pervasive, unmoderated mutation simply has to go.

    ↗Clojure - Rationaleclojure.org 1st of 4 in this piece

    Interesting

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    Our reading

    Object orientation is overrated: it was born of simulation and is now applied everywhere, including where it does not fit.

    Their wordsBorn of simulation, now used for everything, even when inappropriate

    ↗Clojure - Rationaleclojure.org 2nd of 4 in this piece

    Interesting

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    Our reading

    Mutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code: hard to understand, hard to test and hard to reason about.

    Their wordsMutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code

    ↗Clojure - Rationaleclojure.org 3rd of 4 in this piece

    Interesting

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    Our reading

    Locking is too hard for programmers to get right over and over again, so the language runtime should do that part.

    Their wordsLocking is too hard to get right over and over again

    ↗Clojure - Rationaleclojure.org 4th of 4 in this piece

    Interesting