Simple made easy

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

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

>>25

yup. FP pioneered GC because memory allocation is a side effect and orthogonal to how computation should work. your brain has limited space and should be filled with important stuff, like the actual problem.

>>21
are you retarded? he said that CL and scheme are complex because the syntax can be ambiguous with the case of parens holding both data and computation. clojure has quote too, but it encourages you to use braces and brackets to denote sets and vectors.