Written by Eric Normand. Published: October 27, 2017. Updated: May 25, 2020. Summary: Rich Hickey explained the design choices behind Clojure and made many statements about static typing along the way. I share an interesting perspective and some stories from my time as a Haskell programmer. I conclude with a design challenge for the statically typed world. Rich Hickey's Keynote at Clojure/conj 201