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Bottom Up vs Top Down Design in Clojure - Mark Bastian
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Mark Bastian contrasts top-down object-oriented design with bottom-up, data-oriented design in Clojure. He models a board game as plain data plus small composable functions and compares it with a roughly 22-class OOP version.
HN repeatedly recommends it as the talk that made data-oriented, REPL-driven bottom-up design click.
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