Rich Hickey: The Value of Values
Great talk. Most of these talks on functional programming make perfect sense. These also look ideological superior.<p>My only problem is Object oriented programming looks more pragmatic in the real world. There are libraries, tools, tutorials, help forums and a lot of other stuff out there which helps anybody who wants to start learning OO from to go from nothing to far places.<p>You can't say the same thing about functional programming. The community is too elitist, the tutorials are math heavy. And the tools are too ancient. Having to use simple text editors and selling them as technologies used to build large applications is a contradictory philosophy.