Are We There Yet?

``Simple Made Easy" presentation has sparkled a vivid discussion about state, but many people seem to miss the point completely. They either think that state isn't complex at all and doesn't need to be fixed, or that the alternatives are inherently too slow and inefficient to be taken seriously.

In his another presentation Rich talks about this topic almost exclusively and I guess it's a required watch if you want to understand the first one thoroughly.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey

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Well, yes, just like any other programming language.
Other languages use "statements". Still assembly is comparable to Lisp, cuz it uses instruction pointer as a "continuation", but most compilers dont that every assembly instruction is a lambda in itself.