Rich Hickey

Computer scientist and musician that designed the Clojure programming language. Has given many influential talks about functional programming.

In the three tribes of programming, Rich is firmly in the ‘poet’ camp favoring concise, beautiful code.

See also:

• The value of values
• Simple made easy

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• Clojure

  A lisp functional programming language designed by Rich Hickey. The core philosophy is to organize programs around the transformation of values using pure functions and isolated side-effects.