On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Larry Travis <tra...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > Thanks, Sergey. The problem was indeed a classpath problem. The part of my > ignorance about Java that seems to cause me the most trouble is my ignorance > about Java classpaths. I think some Clojurians underestimate the > difficulties involved in learning Clojure without knowing Java first.
This issue applies to "all" JVM-based languages but I wouldn't go so far as to say you need to know _Java_, there's just a little bit of Java infrastructure knowledge required. It seems like we need some sort of Java Classpath 101 on the community wiki. Mind you, as Phil hints in his edit, using the raw Java libraries just isn't how folks really use Clojure - the problem is that's what clojure.org/getting_started says right now but we're hoping to see that changed after the "big news" on July 20th from Rich in NYC. If clojure.org/getting_started told folks to use Leiningen to get started, I suspect we'd stop worrying about Java classpaths completely :) -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- 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
