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Re:Study of non-programmers' solutions to programming proble... by zdkl on Saturday April 16, 2016 @04:36AM (#11509846)
You may be thinking of http://www.datomic.com/ a product by Cognitect where Rich Hickey works. However the Clojure data structures also have the time dimension in the context of the language's immutable structures but it is not something you typically concern yourself with too much.
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Re:Study of non-programmers' solutions to programming proble... by vanderZwan on Saturday April 16, 2016 @10:55AM (#11510795)
I looked it up, it's this talk, which indeed is the first one about Clojure, and it's philosophical foundations:

https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi... (slides)

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic... (recording)

The opening lines are:

> So I’m going to talk about time today. In particular, how we treat time in object-oriented languages generally and maybe how we fail to. So I’m trying to provoke you today to just reconsider some fundamental things that I just think we get so entrenched with what we do every day, we fail to step back and look at what exactly are we doing.

Whoever downvoted my previous comment does not know their Clojure, that's for sure.

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Re:Study of non-programmers' solutions to programming proble... by wtetzner on Saturday April 16, 2016 @12:34PM (#11511196)
Well, the time stuff has to do with Clojure's different ref types (Ref, Atom, Var, Agent...) combined with the persistent data structures.
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