Simple Made Easy: Avoiding Complexity in Software

Strange Loop Conference · Talk · YouTube title: "Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)

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What it covers

Rich Hickey's Strange Loop 2011 keynote distinguishing 'simple' (not intertwined) from 'easy' (familiar or near at hand). It argues that software complexity comes from complecting things and that we should pick simple constructs.