Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

Re:Holding a Program in One's Head (2007) by winter_blue on Saturday December 08, 2012 @06:08AM (#4891367)

I have no idea what you're talking about here with the mumbles; but I can see that you're getting upvoted, so I suppose there's some hidden context here that I'm not aware of. Someone care to clarify?

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Re:Holding a Program in One's Head (2007) by shuttlebrad on Saturday December 08, 2012 @06:22AM (#4891392)

He's probably referring to the idea that much of the complexity around today is not particularly useful - in particular, that programming with values rather than variables makes understanding a program substantially easier.

Simple Made Easy is a talk by Rich Hickey, the author of the Clojure programming language which encodes a lot of these ideas into the language.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

[EDIT: ambiguous comma :)]

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Re:Holding a Program in One's Head (2007) by barrkel on Saturday December 08, 2012 @06:15AM (#4891384)

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

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Re:Holding a Program in One's Head (2007) by codewright on Saturday December 08, 2012 @03:48PM (#4892654)

Shuttlebrad is right, but I was mocking the general pattern of proselytization.

I believe in what Hickey's doing though.

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