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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in functional programming, your sort function would return a new sorted list (and probably take as an argument, a function to compare the members of the list)

This has the advantage that you don't have to worry about what else might have been using the old list. (for instance, your comparison function) It's still there.