Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey

Why HN readers recommended it

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

ClojureTV

Topic

software design philosophy

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

10

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Rich Hickey has a lot of excellent stuff to say. Not only are his ideas philosophically sound, but also real, practical and ready to use in the form of Clojure. This recent review "10 years of Clojure", encapsulates a lot of of the wisdom: [VIDEO]

• > Requirements change. Every software engineering project will face this hard problem at some point. Rich Hickey calls this a 'situated' program in his talk from Clojure/Conj 2017, where the program has to deal with information and real-world irregularities for extended periods. While agile disciplines …

• Rich hickey explains at this timestamp in the video, [VIDEO] "The information programming problem" Whole video is gold, is my fav programming talk of all time.