Rich Hickey's presentation which received a standing ovation from Dr. Sussman.
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Anonymous2011-10-21 17:08
Ok, this will surely "out" me as an imperative programmer, but the speaker's focus seems to be that "state" is bad. How the fuck do you write anything useful in any language without having "state?" Any program boils down to code and data, and "state" is just another word for "data." So now we're supposed to write programs that are all code and no data? So I should declare all my C variables as const?