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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Sometimes performance just doesn't matter, compared to the idea behind a piece of code.
I just don't think that's true... ever.  If you didn't care about "performing" your algorithm quickly, you'd just do it on paper and you wouldn't bother using a computer.  The only reason computers exist is to do what we want them to do faster than we could do it by hand.  I could make a FPS game where I draw each frame on paper and show it to you, then ask "now which button do you press?"