On: Simplicity Matters By Rich Hickey (Keynote at Rail...

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Rich better illuminates these concepts in his "Simple Made Easy" talk (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy) at the Strange Loop conference, where he doesn't pull any OO punches.

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I know that not everyone agrees with Rich, but I do think everyone who writes software professionally could benefit from watching this talk.

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And this one (2009):

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...

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Has anyone watched both? Are they significantly different?

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They are very different - one is geared towards more of an FP audience, the other targets the crowd at RailsConf.

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Thanks, was going to ask if this is worth watching if I've already watched his Strange Loop talk.