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Clojure Gazette
Issue 1.15 - July 12, 2012
editorial
Back in Town
Welcome back, me!
You may have worried about where your beloved Clojure Gazette has gone. Well, fear not! I was merely out of town. I am back now and there has been a mountain of news to cover, so let's get started.
Eric Normand
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Rich Hickey again nails it: simplicity is an objective, unlike ease. This time, he's talking to Rubyists. It is very much like his talk Simple Made Easy. But this idea is important enough to be repeated until it is cliche. Show your Rubyist friends.
Steve Losh is programming a roguelike game. It is turning into an epic about game programming in Clojure. There have already been 7 Hacker-News-first-page posts in the series.
I actually considered doing something like this myself, then dismissed it as pure hubris. Mark Probst, however, fears not the gods! He has embarked on a journey most would dread to imagine. Yet, he continues! What is at the end of this path? Certain destruction or fame and glory?
Chas Emerick critiques Clojure and some of its stickier points. I found myself agreeing with many of his points. Are these problems solvable or do they just reflect the inherent complexity of the domain?
Nat Pryce challenges many fundamental ideas about software engineering. Clean code, programming paradigms, conceptual integrity, abstraction. All dead. His thesis is that all of these ideas fail to take into account the changing nature of software over time.