"To the extent the data is immutable, there is little harm that can come of providing access, other than that someone could come to depend upon something that might change. Well, okay, people do that all the time in real life, and when things change, they adapt. And if they are rational, they know when they make a decision based upon something that can change that they might in the future need to adapt. So, it’s a risk management decision, one I think programmers should be free to make."

--Rich Hickey seems to possess that rare and fantastic combination of being very intelligent but still extremely pragmatic while still shipping high quality code.

Headline sucks, but the post looks interesting.

Seems to be a good run-down of Clojure, geared more towards imperative/procedural language guys (like myself). Exciting stuff.