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> Requirements change. Every software engineering project will face this hard problem at some point.

Rich Hickey calls this a 'situated' program in his talk from Clojure/Conj 2017, where the program has to deal with information and real-world irregularities for extended periods.

While agile disciplines help you from one perspective, your tools (e.g. program language) might also help you solve some of the problems. In this framing, Clojure certainly tries to help where the it matters most.

Highly recommended to read the transcript or watch the video, even if you are not interested in the language itself.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU Transcript: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...