On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Phil Hagelberg technoma...@gmail.com wrote:
This was one of the most disorienting things I encountered when starting
with clojure. I'm used to codebases providing a bin/ directory or at
least a shell script to start from. It wouldn't be so bad if the java
CLI
Mibu mibu.cloj...@gmail.com writes:
I recommended clojure to a dozen friends or so and after a while none
of them stuck with it. I know clojure being a lisp and being at the
current development stage is not for everyone, but after I probed why
people gave up with it I saw the barriers to
Mibu,
Thanks for your post because it captures what I am passing through. I
have not done FP before and I am not even a great programmer, and with
FP comes a sea of concepts and abstracts I have not heard before.
These concepts and abstracts led me to conclude that FP is not made
for mere
Regarding the editor part, Scite could be a good option, especially
for beginners.
It's a whole hell of a lot simpler than emacs and vim.
All you really have to do by way of configuration is go to Options -
Open User Options File and paste in the following lines:
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Mibu
On Dec 18, 1:22 pm, Mibu mibu.cloj...@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 18, 2:37 pm, janus emekami...@gmail.com wrote:
I think I need a mentor!
Come to the IRC channel (#clojure on irc.freenode.net). The people
there are friendly, helpful, and surprisingly patient.
Thanks for your
I would like to see more practical screencasts. RH's Clojure talks
are interesting but only at a high level. I'd like to see a
screencast on Emacs/SLIME because I have no idea what the hell it is
or what it offers over a basic screencast.
Likewise, doing screencasts on macros, concurrency
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Jan Rychter j...@rychter.com wrote:
I don't buy it. When you start using Python, nobody handholds you so
that you can pick an editor. You just use whatever you have. So what's
the deal here?
At least on Windows, Python comes with IDLE, which is surprisingly
I recommended clojure to a dozen friends or so and after a while none
of them stuck with it. I know clojure being a lisp and being at the
current development stage is not for everyone, but after I probed why
people gave up with it I saw the barriers to entry were largely
superficial and can be
Good post! I have been going through the same problems myself. It
looks like enclojure is going to have a Netbeans 6.5 release very soon
(still alpha though). I've also tried to figure out the best way to
learn Clojure. After flailing about a bit, last night I printed out
all the documents on
