Rich Hickey

Rich Hickey is the creator of the Clojure programming language, a Lisp dialect built on top of the Java Virtual Machine. Before Clojure, he developed dotLisp, a similar project based on the .NET platform. Hickey is an independent software developer and a consultant with over 20 years of experience in many facets of software development. He has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, ... more

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