What Rich Hickey thinks about software quality

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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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2 dated positions, c. 2011 to 2018, in their own words. Our reading of what Rich Hickey has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. by 2 Jan 2018

   Our readingMutable 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

3. c. 2011

   Our readingTests and type checkers are safety nets: they do not make a system simple, so they cannot touch the core problem of understanding it.

   Their wordsRight? They just do not touch the core of this problem. Right? They're safety nets, but they're nothing more than that.

   ↗"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)youtube.com 4th of 5 in this recording