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		donjigweed on Dec 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clojure at a Real Estate Portal The "Clojurians don't like testing" meme probably has more to do with Rich Hickey's famous "guard rail programming" [1] comment than anything else. Of course, even at the time, the joke within the community was, "Yes, Rich Hickey doesn't need to write tests....you do!" [1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy (15:30)

sheepmullet on Dec 14, 2015 [–]

> The "Clojurians don't like testing" meme probably has more to do with Rich Hickey's famous "guard rail programming" [1] comment than anything else.

And Rich Hickey isn't against testing. He was having a jab at test driven design.

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