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Truly a great speaker/thinker, able to communicate his thoughts well. As a former avid Scala developer, I started down the path of watching every Rich Hickey p
by hashtree 13y ago
Truly a great speaker/thinker, able to communicate his thoughts well.
As a former avid Scala developer, I started down the path of watching every Rich Hickey presentation I could find one week. Every video tweaked my thinking just a tad (as I almost always agree with his line of thinking), and I came out of it a better functional programmer and a Clojure developer.
Note: I still do/love Scala, I just develop much less of it in favor of Clojure.
- gosub 13y agoI was sold the first time I saw "Clojure for lisp programmers". I consider "The language of the system" and the simple/easy talk two modern classics.
- jonahx 13y agoWould you mind sharing links to your other favorites?
- sandyarmstrong 13y agoJust look down http://www.infoq.com/author/Rich-Hickey http://www.infoq.com/author/Rich-Hickey . Probably the most famous talks are "Simple Made Easy" and "The Value of Values". I'm also a big fan of the talk on persistent data structures, simply because it was my first introduction to them.
- cgag 13y agoYes, "Simple Made Easy" is a must watch imo. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy "Are we there yet" is also great: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic... I also love "Hammock Driven Development": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
- SkyMarshal 13y agoBoth Hickey and Odersky are awesome, having to choose between Clojure and Scala is just an embarrassment of riches. The JVM ecosystem is fortunate to have both building on it.