Rich Hickey's presentation which received a standing ovation from Dr. Sussman.
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Anonymous2011-10-22 17:03
In all this discussion, I still haven't really seen a reasonable argument against state. Hickey just says it's complex because "it complects time and value." Pretty vague.
If I have an egg, and then I fry it, I have a fried egg. Physics doesn't allow me to pass a copy of the egg to the frying pan and keep the original egg in the carton for later. Passing everything by value/copy is a more complex concept because it's not intuitive in our universe.