Re: How to (easily) show the advantages of Clojure

I think it depends a lot on your audience. For example, java spring programmers are likely going to be impressed by the simplicity and speed at which you can get a project started, especially when using lein and being able to avoid the common load of bolerplate java, xml, etc. Programmers famil

Re: Clojure Literature

I started clojure right at the point where contrib changed. I think I had a lot less problems than did many who had already started and were use to the old setup. I didn't mention the contrib change because it was long before the dates the OP was talking about, because none of the books I menti

Re: Clojure Literature

The books I've found valuable are Clojure Programming. Really liked this book because it just fitted well with my preferred style of book. Really enjoyed it and found that often, just as I was asking myself a question, the answer was in the next paragraph. Joy of Clojure. Excellent book. Po

Re: Full stack Clojure web/REST framework - is there any mileage in it?

A good thought/discussion provoking post, thanks. I find myself between two camps here. On one side and coming from the position of both learning Clojure and coming back to web development after a long period of mainly working on large backend database apps, the suggestion of a nicely bundled a

Re: [emacs over ssh limitations]

I've just got my first mac and will investigate a bit and let you know what I find out. I know that emacs can work over ssh with all key combos and am fairly certain it will be an issue with the terminal emulator, so I should be able to find the right setup with a bit of time.. Tim On Tuesday

Re: [emacs over ssh limitations]

Hi Stuart, can I ask what platform are you sshing from and what terminal you are using? I use emacs over ssh a lot and while I have encountered some of the issues you mention, they are in a far more limited way. For example, I have found different behaviour between delete and sometimes, Alt d

Re: Newbie question about rebinding local variables

On Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:26:30 AM UTC+10, Craig Ching wrote: > > > > On Friday, April 20, 2012 9:07:49 AM UTC-5, Walter van der Laan wrote: >> >> You could start with pure functions to handle the game logic, e.g.: >> >> (defn new-game [] >> [[\- \- \-] >>[\- \- \-] >>[\- \- \-]])

Re: Newbie question about rebinding local variables

On Friday, April 20, 2012 8:21:56 AM UTC+10, Craig Ching wrote: > > Ok, I've read that what I want to do is a no no. But this is the sort of > thing I did in Scheme about 20 years ago (and because of that I'm probably > misremembering ;-)). > > Basically I'm learning clojure and thought I'd wr

Re: lein run and standard input (*in*) with read-line

plugin, my script has the path CLASSPATH="/home/phil/.m2/repository/swank-clojure/swank-clojure/1.4.0/swank-clojure-1.4.0.jar" instead of CLASSPATH="/home/tcross/. Tim On Sunday, March 4, 2012 4:54:00 AM UTC+11, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > > Tim Cross writes: > > >

lein run and standard input (*in*) with read-line

Hi All, I've been working on my first little clojure project for the past couple of days, but have now run into a problem with leiningen and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction to find a solution. I'm using lein 1.7.0, clojure 1.3.0 and openJDK 6 on a ubuntu based system.

Re: Lack in the documentation

Hi All, very new to clojure, so thought my experience may be relevant. Initially, the java aspect is a bit daunting. However, I don't believe you need to know java in order to take advantage of all the java interop features of clojure. All that you really need is to understand how to read jav