As somebody who did only a few hours of Java, but knows object oriented programming well and had its fair share of fun with Common Lisp, Scheme and Haskell, Clojure was quite easy to pick up. For all pure Clojure stuff, I don't think that you need to know anything about Java. When you work with Java libs, it's useful to know about static vs instance methods, static members, reading Javadoc, etc.
I am currently writing a small tutorial (nothing of the scope of Stuart's book) on how to fetch web comics online. I have two parts so far, and both show a little of the Java interop functionality. Let me know if it's useful http://gnuvince.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/fetching-web-comics-with-clojure-part-1/ http://gnuvince.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/fetching-web-comics-with-clojure-part-2/ Good luck, Vincent. On Nov 23, 11:34 pm, syamajala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How easy is it to pick up clojure without having any previous java > experience? I have plenty of common lisp experience, but have just > never bothered learning java. I recently got a chance to watch the > boston lisp talk on clojure, and it looks fairly straightforward, but > I feel that not having any knowledge of java might make it a little > hard to do more advanced things. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
