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> Has anyone ever seriously believed this?

Hickey, Datomic?




Believing you can solve the concurrency problem[1] using functional programming as your tool-shaping method of choice is different from believing functional programming solves the concurrency problem.

[1] Whatever 'the' concurrency problem may be and not implying that I agree that the Clojure people believe they can solve it or intend to solve it




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