Rich Hickey on Clojure

Well, first of all its fun to hear another podcast from the same show as we did when we were hearing dick Gabriel on Lisp, then we were hearing from an expert we could say on the topic (Lisp), but now we are hearing about the language, in this case Clojure, from the own creator of the language which makes things a little bit more interesting in my opinion.

Some things talked about in the podcast we have learned through the course but hearing why it works that way and the thought put behind that as to why make the language work that way is what made the podcast really interesting.

One think I really liked is the realization which I really didn’t paid attention, although is obvious, until listening to this podcast, is that we have the power of Java thanks to the java virtual machine without the language being java itself, but we also have the power of Lisp as Clojure is a dialect of lisp and in my opinion that makes Clojure a really powerful language and also a very simple one because of how it is written and how it works. Still speaking of this part I liked a thing Rich Hickey mentioned that Clojure is much simpler than Java and how it breaks the definition of simplicity between having a simple syntax, which talks good about Clojure, and being guided which in a way makes Java look like it’s easier to understand and although at the start of the course I would say that java is way more simpler than Clojure and there is no way this language is simpler after starting to work with it I can now say that Rich really has a good point saying that clojure is simpler but I think it only applies after you learned how it really works and how it is written.