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Rich Hickey rants about HttpServletRequest in 1080p: Death By Specificity from Clojure Made Simple
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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.
Cited as the classic rant on maps versus objects in discussions of data modeling and OOP.
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