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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architectures run their assembly instruction set as fast as they operate. Any language that is translated to assembly instructions has an equal opportunity to run fast, although different languages have different assumptions about what's going on in the code, which makes it easier or harder to get good optimization. C is pretty simple and close to assembly, so it is good for that.