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Jul 22, 2013 at 11:52
"What’s so special about all the bugs in your program? They passed all your tests[...]" -- Rich Hickey. Sometimes painfully true...

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Maybe Not by Rich Hickey: https://youtu.be/YR5WdGrpoug Makes an interesting point on Maybe/Either: they require updating the call site, even for compatible changes! E.g. from returning a Maybe Foo to returning a Foo. Argues for *union* types.