Rich Hickey on Maps Versus Objects
Fred Overflow · Talk · YouTube title: Rich Hickey rants about HttpServletRequest in 1080p: Death By Specificity from Clojure Made Simple
Why it's here
Cited as the classic rant on maps versus objects in discussions of data modeling and OOP.
What it covers
A five-minute excerpt of Rich Hickey's Clojure Made Simple talk, with new slides, ranting about HttpServletRequest and specificity. He argues for using generic maps instead of many specific classes and getters.