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…
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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9 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Pervasive unmoderated mutation has to go if programs are to be concurrent. (opens korrents.com)
“It reflects the reality that, for the concurrent programming future, pervasive, unmoderated mutation simply has to go.”
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Mutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code: hard to understand, hard to test and hard to reason about. (opens korrents.com)
“Mutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code”
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Locking is too hard for programmers to get right over and over again, so the language runtime should do that part. (opens korrents.com)
“Locking is too hard to get right over and over again”
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Pervasive unmoderated mutation has to go if programs are to be concurrent. (opens korrents.com)