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I don’t know. This reads more like a “Clojure is great” post, and Clojure is great. But the author takes a swing and a miss on the Rich Hickey magic. The UNIX example is contrived (the number of occurrences in the order they occur?), and trying to redefine simple in a way that excludes UNIX pipelines doesn’t work.

The example is even more contrived than that, since he could have just used awk

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