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Review your notions of time, state, mutability (talk by Rich Hickey)
- runT1ME 16y agoI really love his ideas, and think he's right on so much, but as for the question of STM, i'm gonna have to go with Cliff Click on this one: http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff-click/2008-05-27-clojure-stms-vs-locks http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff-click/2008-05-27-cloju...
- SlyShy 16y agoIf people are interested, here's some extra reading matter courtesy of reddit: http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/09/dining-philosophers-the-4th-solution/ http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/09/dining-philosoph... http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
- shoesfullofdust 16y agoGreat talk! Thanks for pointing this out. "You superimpose the notion of cloud on a series of related cloud values." Whoa!