Re: Basic toolset for non-Java programmer

2010-06-19 Thread Alex Ott
Hello Paul Moore at Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:08:54 +0100 wrote: PM - Build tools: There seem to be things like ant, maven, leiningen. How PM do they relate to each other? Is there an obvious best answer or PM should I be expecting to check them all out depending on my needs? In PM that case, are

Re: Basic toolset for non-Java programmer

2010-06-19 Thread Paul Moore
Thanks to Ryan, Rob and Alex for the suggestions. I'll have a deeper look into all of them. Paul -- 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

Basic toolset for non-Java programmer

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Moore
I'm wondering, what would be a useful basic set of tools for a newcomer to Clojure with no Java background? I'm not really talking about IDEs (everyone has their own opinions about IDEs, and I've seen some discussions elsewhere to give me some pointers on that one). I'm more interested in things

Re: Basic toolset for non-Java programmer

2010-06-18 Thread rzeze...@gmail.com
While not reflective of the entire community, here's my suggestions. - Build tools: There seem to be things like ant, maven, leiningen. How do they relate to each other? Is there an obvious best answer or should I be expecting to check them all out depending on my needs? In that case, are

Re: Basic toolset for non-Java programmer

2010-06-18 Thread rob
My attitude toward debugging is decidedly non-Java, but I find the best thing to do is break your problem into small enough pieces that you can experiment with them rapidly in the REPL. For certain stuff that is hard to test in the repl (such as aspects of applet development for example and other