simple-make-easy-rich-hickey

Simplicity is prerequisite to reliability

~ Edsger W. Dijkstra

• Rich Hickey (opens new window) is the creator of clojure (opens new window)
• How many things can we keep in mind?
  • Reduce intertwining
• Whats the impact of your change?
• How many place you have to visit to make/implement a change?
• Development speed - long runs | short sprints (agile and XP)

Simplicity is the ultimate sophestication

~ Leonardo da Vinci

• Monad (opens new window)

Clojure

What clojur is?

• Dynamic language
• dialect of LISP
  • Why LISP?
  • dont have to wait for constructs like forEach to be implemented by authors
• implemented on top of JVM

Four Ideas

1. Functional language
2. Emphasis on concurrency
   1. broadcast automation systems
3. Designed to be hosted

Real programattic and hygenic macros?

That transforms programs into other programs. Unlike C macros, which is crude string substitution system.

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Runtime (opens new window)

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