Sure, but you have assumed that you have a perfectly working clojure environment set up. *That* is the hard part.
On Friday, February 15, 2013 12:19:34 AM UTC+1, vemv wrote: > > I never tried out core.logic. This is how I just got it "installed" in > less than a minute. Really no magic here: > > lein new foo; cd foo > # google "core.logic", grab the dependencies vector ([org.clojure/core.logic > "0.7.5"]), attach it to your project.clj > lein repl > > (use 'clojure.core.logic)(run* [q] > (== q true)) > > > Same principle for practically every single Clojure lib. > > On Friday, February 15, 2013 12:08:18 AM UTC+1, Jules wrote: >> >> You are certainly not alone. Learning the language and concepts is very >> easy for me, but the sysadmin stuff to get set up is so much harder. >> Believe it or not, I had much more trouble with installing core.logic than >> understanding it. It doesn't end either, you bump into more problems once >> you try to do something interesting. Just try e.g. to call the LLVM C api >> from Clojure, I have not succeeded to this day (was trying to implement a >> LLVM backend for Clojurescript). You have the same problem with many open >> source projects, they are simply not focused on user friendliness, it's >> certainly not a Clojure specific problem. If you are on Windows the >> problems are 10x worse. Compare this with e.g. Visual Studio. You install >> it, and everything just works. Package manager, calling C functions, >> powerful GUI libraries, IDE with debugger, syntax highlighting, >> autocomplete, etc. From the first minute on you are programming rather than >> sysadmining. I wish we had the same experience for Clojure. >> >> On Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:42:57 PM UTC+1, BJG145 wrote: >>> >>> Having studied Lisp decades ago I like the look of Clojure a lot. But as >>> a complete newbie when it comes to modern software development, I'm >>> exasperated by what strikes me as a very difficult and primitive set of >>> tools to get started. I keep seeing "Leinigen, Leinigen", and the Leinigen >>> homepage boasts that "Leinigen offers the easiest way to get started with >>> Clojure", but this simply isn't true. The easiest way to get started with >>> Clojure that I've come across so far is IntelliJ IDEA. If I hadn't found >>> that I'd probably have given up by now. >>> >>> What got me back into programming recently was a Lua-based development >>> environment for Android called Gideros. Lua seems popular for developing >>> apps for some reason. (Cf Corona, Moia, Unity). It seems like quite a neat >>> language, though I'd like to use something more Lisp-like. Maybe the tools >>> are just too difficult for me at the moment, though I'll persevere for a >>> bit. I'd like to achieve some simple graphics on an Android device at >>> least. I've come across some tutorials for CLojure and jMonkey and I'm >>> wondering to dive into that, though I'm still unsure whether OpenGL is the >>> way to go for simple 2D stuff... >>> >> -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
