Events: datomic

Events: datomic

Dec 5

2013

12:00pm EDT
CIC - 4th floor (ISTC Panther Hollow Room)
Dec 5 2013
Datomic (Rich Hickey)
Speaker:
Rich Hickey
System:
Datomic

Proponents of functional programming tout its many benefits, most of which are available only within a particular process, or afforded by a particular programming language feature. Anything outside of that is considered I/O, dangerous and difficult to reason about. But real systems almost always cross process and language boundaries, and most require, crucially, a very gnarly bit of shared state... Read More