Oh, and I'd try to figure out if this theory has any merit: do things like paredit and yasnippet help you intuitively think in terms of manipulating structure rather than text? Because in Clojure, you're constantly transforming and pushing around units of data.
On Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 11:45:10 AM UTC+2, Tj Gabbour wrote: > > Hi! > > This highly depends on what’s most effective for you. If I were your tutor > [1], I’d hear “but i wanna to start from emacs and emacs lisp,” and take > that as a strong indicator that this path (first exploring Emacs) might be > effective for you. > > Useful to probe more deeply into two threads: your interest in Emacs and > interest in Clojure. Why you find these interesting. (For example, do you > find Emacs a pleasant, customizable environment to live in?) > > A couple lessons which seem transferable are: a) getting used to > parens/brackets as delimiting code/data units, and b) getting used to an > environment you can interactively change while it runs. > > But I really don’t know. I've only written small Emacs Lisp programs. > (Unlike say Bozhidar, who also responded.) > > All the best, > Tj > > [1] I tutor someone in computing, so that’s a common frame of reference. > (But it’s limited since I haven’t tutored many. Like a tailor who knows > only a few body types.) > > > On Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 4:00:03 AM UTC+2, mnz...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> i am about to use emas and start to learn emacs lisp, would the study of >> emacs lisp help to learn clojure, both of them are lisp dialect, so would >> it take a long time to swich from emacs lisp to clojure? >> i just want to learn clojure, but i wanna to start from emacs and emacs >> lisp, is that an effective way to master lisp and the great editor emacs? >> or it's better to start from clojure and some other ide directly? >> need some suggestions and advices:) >> > -- 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/d/optout.
