Simple Made Easy

Talk by Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure on simplicity in code.

In particular he contends that de-complecting; unentangling systems yield better artifacts; the resulting systems we create.

He talks about the merits of:

• Queues
• Functions and values
• True polymorphism
• Data as data

And the vices of:

• Classes and objects
• State
• ORMs

That means using constructs natively found in languages like:

• Clojure
• More “regular” Lisps (to a certain degree)
• Haskell