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		markokocic on April 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs... I'll just quote Antoine de Saint-Exupery here: "You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away."

dpritchett on April 20, 2011 [–]

McCarthy already wrote that perfectly minimialist language in 1960. It only had seven functions and two special forms. Most programmers use more than nine keywords today.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/recursive.html

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