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Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure

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Is LISP Really Simple?

LISP is much simpler than Java, he says. LISP has a very simple syntax only consisting of the couple of abstractions you mentioned before and then it's orthogonal. You can make somebody off the street and you, and you show them hello world in Java. And I think that the, the lack of implicit complexity, yeah, which is really where we suffer.

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