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What is notable about Hickey besides being the creator of Clojure? Not to say that this alone doesn't make him notable, but I also don't really see the gain in

• kgwgk 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall I’m sure there are others, they are the first that came to my mind.
  • uDontKnowMe 6y ago
    Some more: Java https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling Scala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Odersky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Odersky PHP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf Ruby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto F# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Syme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Syme Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike
• puredanger 6y ago
  He also created the Datomic database https://www.datomic.com/ https://www.datomic.com/
  • dragandj 6y ago
    All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?
    • foobar_ 6y ago
      brought good syntax ?
      • macmac 6y ago
        And a pretty but impractical number system.
  • JBiserkov 6y ago
    Didn't he also create ClojureScript? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVooR-dF_Ag?t=180 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVooR-dF_Ag?t=180
    • puredanger 6y ago
      And edn https://github.com/edn-format/edn https://github.com/edn-format/edn And transit https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format
      • puredanger 6y ago
        And REBL http://rebl.cognitect.com/download.html http://rebl.cognitect.com/download.html
        • stuarthalloway 6y ago
          And Fressian https://github.com/Datomic/fressian/wiki https://github.com/Datomic/fressian/wiki
          • puredanger 6y ago
            And core.async, bringing go blocks, channels, and parking semantics to Clojure https://github.com/clojure/core.async/ https://github.com/clojure/core.async/
        • gleenn 6y ago
          I think REBL is actually more of Stuart Holloway's baby, isn't it? They're close, so maybe this isn't so clear.
• lvncelot 6y ago
  I also think that it's separately notable that Rich Hickey is a prolific speaker. Granted, he almost always talks about Clojure, but I think a lot of people outside of the language still watch those talks, and it would make a lot of sense to have something to look him up by.
  • puredanger 6y ago
    Actually, very few of his talks are about Clojure.
• imdhmd 6y ago
  An entry in wiki would not just be a recognition of his achievements but also a source for further reach out for his ideas.