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I'm going to go out on a limb here and use a logical fallacy, but I have a feeling that Rich Hickey probably has some understanding of the history of database t
by gfodor 13y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and use a logical fallacy, but I have a feeling that Rich Hickey probably has some understanding of the history of database theory and didn't just build Datomic out of ignorance.
- jeffdavis 13y agoBut he also does not have infinite engineering resources at his disposal. I expect that a lot of the designs are probably somewhat simplistic compared to the battle-hardened implementations in common use today. It doesn't mean Rich Hickey was wrong; merely that we are seeing only the ultra-clean design now. After Datomic takes off and has a lot of production users in demanding environments for 5-10 years, I doubt the design will be quite so clean.
- DigitalJack 13y agoI thought he codesigned it with a company called Relevance
- moomin 13y agoWell, there used to a firm called Datomic, and one called Relevance, but they merged to Cognitect.
- jeltz 13y agoIf we are allowing the appeal to authority fallacy then neither would Baron Schwartz write this article out of ignorance. We have two different authorities disagreeing here.