There's a few posts on the mailing list suggesting some good starting points. You can get far in Clojure without resorting to Java but it definitely helps to know some if you really want to advance your knowledge of Clojure's inner workings as well as get it to interoperate with Java libraries.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Santanu <thisissant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Everybody, > > (Sorry if this post appears twice, but the first post seems to have > vanished) > > I have recently downloaded Clojure and am learning it. > > As of now, I feel that to do anything substantial with Clojure, I have > to > be able to know how to access the Java libraries from within Clojure. > > But the problem is, I don't know Java. I know C, some Scheme, little > bit > Haskell, etc. but no Java. I am not interested in Java anyway. I > downloaded > Java documentation and am trying to go through interesting looking > functions to try and use from within Clojure. But with no knowledge of > Java, I am having problems exploring the various functions in the Java > libraries. > > Could you please suggest any Java book (and the relevant chapters) > that > will teach me _just_enough_ Java so that I can understand how to use > the Java > library documentation effectively. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Santanu Chatterjee > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
