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Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Closure's Approach to Concurrency

Closures' approach to data structures and object orientation and concurrency are all tied together. They have to do with, uh, they're all born of a frustration of dealing with state. Even if you don't have concurrence, I think that large objects oriented programs struggle with increasing complexity as you build this large object graph of mutable objects. That's what closure is really about.

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