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Post by draw_down »

I wonder if he’ll still give talks. I don’t blame him if not, but he’s really good at it.

“Simple made easy” was a classic even if everyone proceeded to ignore the practical advice contained therein. And “Maybe not” is my personal favorite, a great discussion of requirements/provisions and the downsides of option types.

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Post by colonwqbang »

draw_down wrote: post #2

I wonder if he’ll still give talks. I don’t blame him if not, but he’s really good at it. “Simple made easy” was a classic even if everyone proceeded to ignore the practical advice contained therein. And “Maybe not” is my personal favorite, a great discussion of requirements/provisions and the downsides of option types.

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Post by girishso »

draw_down wrote: post #2

I wonder if he’ll still give talks. I don’t blame him if not, but he’s really good at it. “Simple made easy” was a classic even if everyone proceeded to ignore the practical advice contained therein. And “Maybe not” is my personal favorite, a great discussion of requirements/provisions and the downsides of option types.

He specifically said in the post that he intends to work on next versions of Clojure. Hope we have many more talks to hear from him.

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Post by phillipcarter »

Rich Hickey's talks inspired me to explore Clojure and functional programming in college. That led to a part of my career where I got to help advance an FP language (F#). Can't say it was a raging success, but it wasn't a raging failure either. Really happy things worked out the way they did, though. I still look back at my senior project, written in Clojure, from time to time and find it elegant in a unique way.

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Post by w-m »

draw_down wrote: post #2

I wonder if he’ll still give talks. I don’t blame him if not, but he’s really good at it. “Simple made easy” was a classic even if everyone proceeded to ignore the practical advice contained therein. And “Maybe not” is my personal favorite, a great discussion of requirements/provisions and the downsides of option types.

I think Hammock Driven Development[0] deserves a spot in the classics!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

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Post by Jtsummers »

colonwqbang wrote: post #3
draw_down wrote: post #2

I wonder if he’ll still give talks. I don’t blame him if not, but he’s really good at it. “Simple made easy” was a classic even if everyone proceeded to ignore the practical advice contained therein. And “Maybe not” is my personal favorite, a great discussion of requirements/provisions and the downsides of option types.

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