Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure
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English - March 22, 2010 19:56 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MB - ★★★★ - 210 ratingsTechnology Education How To software engineering development programming architecture concurrency testing embedded systems enterprise Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This episode is a coversation with Rich Hickey about his programming language Clojure. Clojure is a Lisp dialect that runs on top of the JVM that comes with - among other things - persistent data structures and transactional memory, both very useful for writing concurrent applications.