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Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure

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Closures is a library written in Java that you can use from Java. The lack of idioms and language support means using exactly the same constructs, the same underlying code from Java is extremely painful compared to closure where it is the natural idiom. I mean, when you use closure and you use closures data structures, you're programming this way always. It's not something you superimpose later. And that's a good thing because when you discover your needs or desire to add concurrency, you don't have to change everything in your program. You're already doing the right thing. Yeah. So wouldn't I mean, okay, I'm kind of putting words into your mouth now

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