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From my memory of the popular talk in which he used “complecting”, he was quite open about how silly it is or might seem as a word.

by maegul 4y ago

LAC-Tech 4y ago
Is that the one where he showed the audience how he used to write Java (with static classes everywhere), and you realised... oh shit, this guy did not understand how to write Java at all?
- whalesalad 4y ago
  Clojure runs atop the JVM. The magnificence of full interop and STM (software transactional memory) suggests a certain level of mastery of the Java language.
  - elwell 4y ago
    I love Clojure, but the Java source is oddly formatted which I never understood: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/527b330045ef35b47a968d80ed3dc4999cfa2623/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Keyword.java#L34-L53 https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/527b330045ef35b47a96...
- wtetzner 4y ago
  He understood how to write Java, and attempted to do functional programming in Java, knowing full well that it wasn’t idiomatic.
- WillPostForFood 4y ago
  "a Californian accent" FWIW, Hickey has hardcore east coast accent, sounds nothing like any Californian who hadn't recently moved from New York or Massachusetts.
kgwxd 4y ago
He jokes about how his formula for talks is just look up a word in the dictionary and "you're done". For example, the word "Complect" (which even my spell correct engine thinks is wrong) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complect https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complect
- maegul 4y ago
  So I’m just going to throw this out there … words are deeper than dictionaries. Especially in intellectual conversations concerning abstract or complex concepts, the synthesis of “new” words is pretty fundamental. The line between sentence and word in terms of the composition of elements into new combinations is less clear than a basic language understanding indicates. I call this excessively constrictive lexicality, for want of a better word.

From my memory of the popular talk in which he used “complecting”, he was quite open about how silly it is or might seem as a word.

by maegul 4y ago

From my memory of the popular talk in which he used “complecting”, he was quite open about how silly it is or might seem as a word.

LAC-Tech 4y ago

Is that the one where he showed the audience how he used to write Java (with static classes everywhere), and you realised... oh shit, this guy did not understand how to write Java at all?

whalesalad 4y ago
Clojure runs atop the JVM. The magnificence of full interop and STM (software transactional memory) suggests a certain level of mastery of the Java language.
- elwell 4y ago
  I love Clojure, but the Java source is oddly formatted which I never understood: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/527b330045ef35b47a968d80ed3dc4999cfa2623/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Keyword.java#L34-L53 https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/527b330045ef35b47a96...
wtetzner 4y ago
He understood how to write Java, and attempted to do functional programming in Java, knowing full well that it wasn’t idiomatic.
WillPostForFood 4y ago
"a Californian accent" FWIW, Hickey has hardcore east coast accent, sounds nothing like any Californian who hadn't recently moved from New York or Massachusetts.

kgwxd 4y ago

He jokes about how his formula for talks is just look up a word in the dictionary and "you're done". For example, the word "Complect" (which even my spell correct engine thinks is wrong) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complect https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complect

maegul 4y ago
So I’m just going to throw this out there … words are deeper than dictionaries. Especially in intellectual conversations concerning abstract or complex concepts, the synthesis of “new” words is pretty fundamental. The line between sentence and word in terms of the composition of elements into new combinations is less clear than a basic language understanding indicates. I call this excessively constrictive lexicality, for want of a better word.