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What is notable about Hickey besides being the creator of Clojure? Not to say that this alone doesn't make him notable, but I also don't really see the gain in an entry that is just a glorified redirect.

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He also created the Datomic database https://www.datomic.com/

All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

brought good syntax ?

And a pretty but impractical number system.

Didn't he also create ClojureScript? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVooR-dF_Ag?t=180

And edn https://github.com/edn-format/edn

And transit https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

And REBL http://rebl.cognitect.com/download.html

And Fressian https://github.com/Datomic/fressian/wiki

And core.async, bringing go blocks, channels, and parking semantics to Clojure

https://github.com/clojure/core.async/

I think REBL is actually more of Stuart Holloway's baby, isn't it? They're close, so maybe this isn't so clear.

I also think that it's separately notable that Rich Hickey is a prolific speaker. Granted, he almost always talks about Clojure, but I think a lot of people outside of the language still watch those talks, and it would make a lot of sense to have something to look him up by.

Actually, very few of his talks are about Clojure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall

I’m sure there are others, they are the first that came to my mind.

Some more: Java https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling Scala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Odersky PHP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf Ruby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto F# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Syme Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

An entry in wiki would not just be a recognition of his achievements but also a source for further reach out for his ideas.

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