Re: Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-21 Thread Stuart Halloway
Hi Krukow, The book will go electronic beta (60% complete) in early November, and should be available in print in March 2009. WRT to the case study, you are absolutely right. We will develop the Java and Clojure versions in parallel, so that neither one benefits unfairly from domain

Re: Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-21 Thread Fogus
The presentation videos on the net are excellent -- they are what convinced my that Clojure is really worth learning, and learning well, My discovery came in a similar way. But they had the additional benefit of motivating me to buckle down and learn Emacs. ;) However, to be really

Re: Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-20 Thread Stuart Halloway
Hi Krukow, The quality will definitely be higher than this: http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/9/16/pcl-clojure Same author, more time. :-) Stuart On Oct 20, 12:30 am, Paul Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Krukow, I agree, it would help to have a resource for learning Clojure. For now,

Re: Beginners (and idiomatic Clojure)

2008-10-19 Thread Krukow
On Oct 20, 12:30 am, Paul Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Krukow, I agree, it would help to have a resource for learning Clojure.  For now, my best advice is to pick a real project to start working and then specific questions in the IRC room, #clojure on irc.freenode.net. Within a few