Review your notions of time, state, mutability (talk by Rich Hickey)

If people are interested, here's some extra reading matter courtesy of reddit: http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/09/dining-philosoph... http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf

I really love his ideas, and think he's right on so much, but as for the question of STM, i'm gonna have to go with Cliff Click on this one:

http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff-click/2008-05-27-cloju...

Great talk! Thanks for pointing this out.

"You superimpose the notion of cloud on a series of related cloud values." Whoa!