Simple made easy

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Rich Hickey's presentation which received a standing ovation from Dr. Sussman.

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State isn't bad. Purely functional languages have to simulate state...
That said, I haven't listened to that presentation.

He clearly things that state is bad because it "complects" value and time.  You'll have to watch it to understand what he means by "complect," but I really don't understand what the alternative to state is.  He seems to think it's something called "managed refs" and that sounds like some kind of dog shit you'd find in .NET to me.