Re: Leiningen capabilities (was Re: A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't)

2011-03-28 Thread ultranewb
<> It's okay. I couldn't get hired as a C programmer for NASA years ago, and I had already written my own working C compiler! The idiot interviewer opened some huge C library reference manual to some random page, and asked me to recite whatever function he had the page opened to from memory. Of

Re: A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't

2011-03-28 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 28, 11:19 pm, Luc Prefontaine wrote: > The simple answer (your # 1) was already provided by Shantanu. > Install Eclipse and CCW and you can start simple Clojure projects. > No immediate dependency issues until you need something from Clojar. Oh, there have been lots of "simple answers." T

Re: A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't

2011-03-28 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 28, 11:39 pm, Lee Spector wrote: > There's some ambiguity here about what kind of libraries we're talking about > and where they come from. > I think the poster is asking for a totally transparent way to do the stuff at > the simple end of the spectrum (e.g. for built-in stuff Yes, t

Re: A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't

2011-03-28 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 28, 12:46 pm, Kasim wrote: > Hi, > > I am the guy who did ClojureW. I just updated the instruction to get a REPL > with Jline. Thank you for reporting. I am also working on a "Just Works" > emacs setup for all platforms and would be happy to hear your opinion. I > really want to make it as

Re: A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't

2011-03-27 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 28, 7:51 am, Lee Spector wrote: > > Dependency management and other garbage are definitely garbage, but I know > > of no nontrivial programming language that doesn't have its share of it.   > > If you know of any magical environments that eliminate such administrivia, > > do share. > > A

Re: A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't

2011-03-27 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 27, 11:09 pm, Luc Prefontaine wrote: > You cannot expect a tool to "guess" your project dependencies. > Dependencies are a fact of life and cannot be avoided in any significant > project. > It's not "gargage"... Anything I have to do besides what I should be doing is "garbage," but I'm we

Re: A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't

2011-03-27 Thread ultranewb
For newbs, I did not see this anywhere, but just discovered it, and it is of immense value. In a REPL, you can just (load-file "path/to/ filename") to load the code you typed into an editor. On Mar 27, 12:24 am, ultranewb wrote: > NetBeans w/ Enclosure - > Could get a REPL, cou

Re: A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't

2011-03-27 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 27, 2:29 pm, Shantanu Kumar wrote: > I'm curious - did/could you give Eclipse and Counter-ClockWise plugin > a try? I did not try Eclipse. I had a bad experience before with it. It seems to be the worst to deal with as far as all the project and dependency garbage, and none of that garba

Re: A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't

2011-03-26 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 27, 6:40 am, Mark Engelberg wrote: > Make sure the pane with your code is the active pane when you type > Ctrl-c Ctrl-k.  It won't work if the focus is on the REPL. Nope, it doesn't work, no matter where the focus is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-26 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 27, 12:16 am, Preecha P wrote: > I think you should take a look at clojure box again. You could split > the windows and have both code/repl open at the same times. Doesn't work for me. See this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/3c61be467d783415 -- You r

Re: A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't

2011-03-26 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 27, 12:35 am, Mark Engelberg wrote: > Type some Clojure code into the file you created.  Save periodically > with "Ctrl-x Ctrl-s".  When you want to try out your code, type > "Ctrl-c ctrl-k" and all your code will be evaluated and those > definitions will now be available for interactive us

A newbie's summary - what worked, what didn't

2011-03-26 Thread ultranewb
NetBeans w/ Enclosure - Could get a REPL, couldn't figure out how to do anything else. Result - uninstalled. IntelliJ w/ La Clojure - Could get a REPL, couldn't figure out how to do anything else. In particular, I followed some specific instructions from somewhere (can't remember where) for how

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-25 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 25, 11:05 pm, Shantanu Kumar wrote: > Are you using Mac, Linux or Windows? > > Okay, let me list few things out for you (assuming you are on > Windows): Yes, on Windows. Okay, I can give these things a try late tomorrow and post my results back. Thanks for helping. -- You received this

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-25 Thread ultranewb
I mean, how is what you are describing any different than what these asians I am referring to do? On another note, I have unfortunately decided that I just can't do Clojure right now. I was never able to get anything to work except for using the command line to "java -cp" a file that way. No edi

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-25 Thread ultranewb
t would be any different to do the same with APL symbols. In practice, I just don't know enough about the problem, so maybe it is. On Mar 25, 12:15 pm, Ken Wesson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:36 AM, ultranewb wrote: > > On Mar 25, 8:58 am, Sean Corfield wrote: > >> My

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-24 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 25, 8:58 am, Sean Corfield wrote: > My final year project at university was to write an APL interpreter > (in Pascal, back in '83). APL is a fun language. I haven't looked at J > (yet). Awesome! J is APL, but totally "modernized." Everything you would expect in a functional language (cur

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-24 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 24, 10:19 am, Sean Corfield wrote: > Heh, even as a long-time Java developer (since '97), I'm here because > I want something _better_ than Java. It's why I learned Groovy in 2008 > (sort of "Java-lite" - fixes most of Java's problems but suffers from > performance issues compared to Java),

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-23 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 24, 7:26 am, Armando Blancas wrote: > That's quite alright. Nine out of ten people here hate java; Actually, I didn't know that. I imagined that 9 out of 10 people here would be java-ites. It's good to know that I'm in good company. -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-23 Thread ultranewb
Nope, I get a . On Mar 23, 11:23 pm, wschnell wrote: > Hi, > > I started with NetBeans and Enclojure and never used anything else. > You can just go File/New Project, say this is going to be a Clojure > project, give it a name. This will be your new active project in the > projects tree on the le

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-23 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 24, 1:11 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Long version:  Okay, I'm very new to Clojure.  But I'm not a Java > > programmer (don't want to be). > > I don't think you can get very far in Clojure without having to come > to grips with the Java infrastructure. It ain't Unix. Well, for me I guess it w

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-23 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 23, 10:15 pm, Timothy Baldridge wrote: > > No I did not, because I didn't go the Eclipse route; rather, I tried > > NetBeans and Emacs. > > That was my experience as well. I have tried many Eclipse based IDEs > and they all were slow, buggy, and utterly worthless. So I didn't even > try to

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-23 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 23, 9:43 pm, Laurent PETIT wrote: > Did you follow the presentation of getting started with > Eclipse+Counterclockwise, where the step by step guide explains how to setup > your environment, and also how to create a hello world project ? No I did not, because I didn't go the Eclipse route;

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-23 Thread ultranewb
On Mar 23, 9:10 pm, Aaron Cohen wrote: > Did you search for getting started guides? If so and you didn't find > these, how can they be made easier to find? If you didn't find them, > why not? If you found them and they didn't help, why not? Yes, I had previously found all those guides, and much m

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-23 Thread ultranewb
Yes, the issue isn't Clojure at all, it's Java. At any rate, thanks for feeling my pain. On Mar 23, 8:59 pm, Timothy Baldridge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:11 AM, ultranewb wrote: > > I'll be damned - this worked.  Really, there needs to be some > > promi

Re: Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-23 Thread ultranewb
27;t even know what the heck a "jar" file is). And these guides need to be linked right at the front page of the Clojure site. Anyway, thanks. On Mar 23, 7:25 pm, Stefan Sigurdsson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:50 AM, ultranewb wrote: > > Short version:  How do I just ope

Jesus, how the heck to do anything?

2011-03-23 Thread ultranewb
Short version: How do I just open an editor, type in some Clojure code, save it in a file, and then run it? Long version: Okay, I'm very new to Clojure. But I'm not a Java programmer (don't want to be). I'm not used to all this complexity just to do something simple. What I want to do is the