> it's exceedingly difficult to explain to a working programmer why "referential transparency" is gonna meaningfully improve their lives. I think the Simple Ma

> it's exceedingly difficult to explain to a working programmer why "referential transparency" is gonna meaningfully improve their lives. I think the Simple Made Easy talk, by Rich Hickey (of Clojure fame) does a pretty good job on this front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4 Discussed: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4173854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4173854 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23905051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23905051 Hickey did another similar talk called The Value of Values.