Ep 049: Keywords! Keywords! Keywords!

Functional Design in Clojure

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Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.

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This week, our topic is: "Keywords! Keywords! Keywords!" We examine all the fascinating properties of keywords, how to use them, and why they're so much better than strings and enums.

Selected quotes:

"The question of the day is: Why is there no question of the day?"
"Everything behind the scenes should get turn into integers because that is the good and true way."
"A FAQ after the fact."
"We forget about identical? because Clojure gives us value semantics!"
"Magic numbers you can spell with letters."
"The ability of communicating with letters--something we humans have been developing for a while."
"What is this sorcery?!"
"JSON. That's not not a guy who likes strings."
"Let's blame JSON."
"If you don't have to recursively walk a tree, why recursively walk a tree?"
"A little bit of copying is better than a lot of depending."
"The randomly placed last one wins!"
"Trust but verify."

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