Beckman's an interesting character, and he asked intelligent questions. I was unaware of him before this (I don't know anything about the M'soft or CLR worlds) but I'll have to keep an eye out from now on.
After a mercifully short Lisp intro (parentheses, prefix notation, programs-as-data and the macro system) Hickey spends most of his time talking about Clojure's seq abstraction, immutability and persistence, constant-time modification to existing structures, and the STM.
Not an interview for complete neophytes, their conversation includes offhand references to fp, monads, functions as first class objects, OO classes/methods and other stuff they didn't bother to explain. IOW it wasn't dumbed-down. This is an intro to Clojure for not-stupids who might not have seen a Lisp before, but that's okay -- they don't end up talking all that much about Lisp.
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Easy enough to download and run through mplayer.
Beckman's an interesting character, and he asked intelligent questions. I was unaware of him before this (I don't know anything about the M'soft or CLR worlds) but I'll have to keep an eye out from now on.
After a mercifully short Lisp intro (parentheses, prefix notation, programs-as-data and the macro system) Hickey spends most of his time talking about Clojure's seq abstraction, immutability and persistence, constant-time modification to existing structures, and the STM.
Not an interview for complete neophytes, their conversation includes offhand references to fp, monads, functions as first class objects, OO classes/methods and other stuff they didn't bother to explain. IOW it wasn't dumbed-down. This is an intro to Clojure for not-stupids who might not have seen a Lisp before, but that's okay -- they don't end up talking all that much about Lisp.