On May 7, 2012, at 12:37 AM, HelmutKian wrote: > Hey there, > > I'm a fairly experienced Common Lisp programmer. By that I mean I've read > PAIP, On Lisp, Let Over Lambda, and written several "real world" CL > applications and taught the principles of FP using Racket as a TA. > > Now I'm looking to learn Clojure. What would be the best resource for someone > who is already pretty comfortable with Lisp?
For me, coming to Clojure ore from Common Lisp and Scheme than from Java, the biggest hurdles weren't the language itself but rather the issues with setup, editing environments, build tools and configurations, dependencies, classpaths, etc. Many of the concepts underlying these things were foreign to me, at least in their Java-world guises. If any of this rings true to you then I'd recommend starting with the clooj lightweight IDE, which makes a lot of these issues go away (for me at least), in conjunction with leiningen (invoked from the command line after adding dependencies to your project.clj) to manage dependencies. You can get clooj here: https://github.com/arthuredelstein/clooj -- I'd download the latest "standalone" jar, double click it to launch the IDE, create a project, and begin working there. If you do your Lisping in emacs then there's great support for that route in Clojure too, and maybe that's where you want to end up, but I (and others) have found setup and configuration to be nontrivial. Doubtless others on this list will disagree with that :-), and of course YMMV, but that's my 2cents. On the language itself I recommend watching Rich Hickey's "Clojure for Lisp Programmers" talk (part 1 is here: http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-for-lisp-programmers-part-1-1319721) for starters. After that I personally used Stuart Halloway's "Programming Clojure" text but there are now several others that are also good. -Lee -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
