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At not point he mention that the code is faster to read or understand though, just that it's easier to write "expressive code", whatever that means. He also lies a bit by saying "You’ve just seen 80% or so of the syntax of Clojure.": https://clojure.org/guides/weird_characters.

> Ideas are good if they are good ideas, not good because of who said them.

You're right about that, I always insist a bit more with Robert Martin because there is a lot of cargo culting around what he says. Clean code and TDD are other good examples of that.



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