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		Review your notions of time, state, mutability (talk by Rich Hickey) (infoq.com)
		22 points by SlyShy on May 3, 2010 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 3 comments

SlyShy on May 3, 2010 | [–]

If people are interested, here's some extra reading matter courtesy of reddit: http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/09/dining-philosoph... http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf

runT1ME on May 3, 2010 | | [–]

I really love his ideas, and think he's right on so much, but as for the question of STM, i'm gonna have to go with Cliff Click on this one:

http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff-click/2008-05-27-cloju...

shoesfullofdust on May 4, 2010 | [–]

Great talk! Thanks for pointing this out.

"You superimpose the notion of cloud on a series of related cloud values." Whoa!

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