Re: Best Clojure Learning Resource for Lisper

2012-05-08 Thread Larry Travis
Sean and Lee: In general, I have considered the difference between Aquamacs and GNU Emacs to be that the former prioritizes computer-user interaction via mouse, command-bars and menus (which requires a lot of hand movement between keyboard and mouse, but enables the user to dispense with

Best Clojure Learning Resource for Lisper

2012-05-07 Thread HelmutKian
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

Re: Best Clojure Learning Resource for Lisper

2012-05-07 Thread Jay Fields
I'd recommend The Joy of Clojure. You'll probably be able to skip some early chapters, but overall I feel like its the right book for someone with a decent working knowledge of lisp. Sent from my iPad On May 7, 2012, at 12:37 AM, HelmutKian helmut.rohrbac...@gmail.com wrote: Hey there,

Re: Best Clojure Learning Resource for Lisper

2012-05-07 Thread Jim - FooBar();
Well, if you already know CL and can understand bit of Java (for interop), you're good to go!!! Make sure you know about Clojure's immutable data-structures before anything else...this is the BIG difference between Clojure vs CL (Clojure wins here!) other than that, prepare yourself for a

Re: Best Clojure Learning Resource for Lisper

2012-05-07 Thread Lee Spector
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

Re: Best Clojure Learning Resource for Lisper

2012-05-07 Thread Larry Travis
Lee's comments ring true for me so let me extend them. Before I discovered Clojure, my experience as a programmer had been mainly in the area of artificial-intelligence experimental programming. I was once a reasonably proficient Lisp programmer, but pre-CL and pre-CLOS, that is, mainly

Re: Best Clojure Learning Resource for Lisper

2012-05-07 Thread Lee Spector
On May 7, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Larry Travis wrote: Lee's comments ring true for me so let me extend them. Before I discovered Clojure, my experience as a programmer had been mainly in the area of artificial-intelligence experimental programming. I was once a reasonably proficient Lisp

Re: Best Clojure Learning Resource for Lisper

2012-05-07 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Lee Spector lspec...@hampshire.edu wrote: On May 7, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Larry Travis wrote: If you are not into the intricacies of Emacs multi-key chording, using Aquamacs helps a bit. (Despite the statement in the README that Swank-clojure and SLIME are only

Re: Best Clojure Learning Resource for Lisper

2012-05-07 Thread Lee Spector
On May 7, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Lee Spector lspec...@hampshire.edu wrote: FWIW I've often thought that it would be really wonderful to have real Aquamacs support/polish for swank-clojure/SLIME, especially if it could be packaged in form

Re: Best Clojure Learning Resource for Lisper

2012-05-07 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Lee Spector lspec...@hampshire.edu wrote: My recollection was that Aquamacs had more support for Mac OS native menus and other GUI elements too... Probably, yes. I installed it last year and I seem to recall some native chrome and a menubar - but then folks