Citation needed. The line on slide 111, "Engineers 3-10x more productive, smaller teams", is probably in reference to... Slide 16: "Code is typically 3-10x sm

Citation needed. The line on slide 111, "Engineers 3-10x more productive, smaller teams", is probably in reference to... Slide 16: "Code is typically 3-10x smaller when written in Clojure." Slide 110: "3-10x less code. Limiting factor in programming speed is essential complexity of the problem, not typing." I have to take assertions like that with a sizable chunk of salt. The alternative would mean that there's a gigantic arbitrage opportunity that's being missed by a bunch of highly motivated people. That there is a "a gigantic arbitrage opportunity being missed" is essentially the thesis of the talk. He states the reason why (Clojure is cloaked in 50 years of Lisp misconceptions) on slide 21: "Lisp is an old weird AI language no one uses anymore. It's so slow it requires a supercomputer. It's impossible to hire people who know how to use it. Functional programming has been proven impractical. Also, parentheses." The body of the talk is designed to dispel these beliefs.