Rich Hickey

Rich Hickey in San Francisco

Rich Hickey is a computer programmer and speaker, known as the creator of the Clojure programming language. Clojure is a Lisp dialect built on top of the Java Virtual Machine.^[1]^[2] He also created or designed ClojureScript and the Extensible Data Notation (EDN) data format.

Before Clojure, he developed dotLisp, a similar project based on the .NET Framework.^[3] Hickey is an independent software developer and a consultant with over 20 years of experience in many facets of software development. He has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening.^[4]

He spent about 2½ years working on Clojure, much of that time working exclusively on Clojure without external funding, before releasing it to the world in 2007. In 2012, Datomic, a proprietary distributed database was launched which coincided with the incorporation of Cognitect.^[5] Since 2013, he is the chief technology officer of Cognitect,^[5] which was acquired by Nubank in 2020.

Papers

Rich Hickey (February 1995), "Callbacks in C++ using template functors", C++ Report, 7 (2): 43–50. Reprinted in Stanley B. Lippman (editor) (January 1996). C++ Gems: Programming Pearls from The C++ Report (SIGS Reference Library). pp. 515–537. ISBN 978-1-884842-37-5.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
Rich Hickey (June 2020), "A History of Clojure", Proc. ACM Program. Lang 4, HOPL, Article 71

References

^ Morris, Richard (March 2, 2010). "Rich Hickey: Geek of the Week". Simple Talk. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
^ Elmendorf, Dirk (April 1, 2010). "Economy Size Geek - Interview with Rich Hickey, Creator of Clojure | Linux Journal". www.linuxjournal.com. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
^ Michael Fogus (2011). "Rich Hickey Q&A". Code Quarterly: The Hackademic Journal.
^ Hickey, Rich (November 20, 2008). "Presentation about Clojure". InfoQ. JVM Language Summit. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Gehtland, Justin (September 16, 2013). "Relevance and Metadata Partners Join Forces to Become Cognitect".

External links

[1] Morris, Richard (March 2, 2010). "Rich Hickey: Geek of the Week". Simple Talk. Retrieved June 5, 2020.

[2] Elmendorf, Dirk (April 1, 2010). "Economy Size Geek - Interview with Rich Hickey, Creator of Clojure | Linux Journal". www.linuxjournal.com. Retrieved June 5, 2020.

[3] Michael Fogus (2011). "Rich Hickey Q&A". Code Quarterly: The Hackademic Journal.

[4] Hickey, Rich (November 20, 2008). "Presentation about Clojure". InfoQ. JVM Language Summit. Retrieved June 5, 2020.

[Merger-5] Gehtland, Justin (September 16, 2013). "Relevance and Metadata Partners Join Forces to Become Cognitect".

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