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by frou_dh 405 days ago
> I suspect this is the real reason Clojure was created, I bet Rich was just really bored.

Well he spelled out the motivations in numerous early presentations so I don't think he'd take kindly to the implication they were BS.

I remember a funny quote along the lines of, he felt the concurrent software he'd already written in C++ and Java had required "He-Man" levels of perspiration to actually get correct.