Rich Hickey Alive
Created Clojure — a Lisp with persistent data structures on the JVM — and gave the Simple Made Easy talks.
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Created Clojure
Created Clojure (2007) — a Lisp for the JVM with immutable data structures and 'Simple Made Easy' as philosophy — and gave the talks ('Hammock Driven Development', 'The Value of Values') that shaped a generation's thinking.\n\nDatomic is his database; his talks are required viewing.