Aim Small, Miss Small: Writing Correct Programs by Stuart Halloway – Deconstruct

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Transcript(Editor's note: transcripts don't do talks justice. This transcript is useful for searching and reference, but we recommend watching the video rather than reading the transcript alone! For a reader of typical speed, reading this will take 15% less time than watching the video, but you'll miss out on body language and the speaker's slides!)[APPLAUSE] Thanks, Gary. My name's Stuart Halloway, and I work at a company called Cognitect. And we like to talk about stuff and share knowledge. If you've read any of these books, you've read something written by somebody who works with me at Cognitect. And we are also the company that is behind the open-source programming language, Closure, which is a language which is known for making developers ridiculously effective.In my day job, I am the lead developer on a database called Datomic. And it has lots of characteristics. But given the other talks that have occurred over the last couple of days, I would highlight here that schema changes…