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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 understan

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.