Re: Clojure as a 1st language for experienced developer

2009-12-14 Thread Laurent PETIT
If you intend to work with GAE, I guess some portions of the road are pretty clear : use Eclipse with the plugin provided by google, and then install counterclockwise (Eclipse plugin for clojure): http://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/wiki/Documentation#Install_Counterclockwise_plugin. But ple

Re: Clojure as a 1st language for experienced developer

2009-12-13 Thread kaveh_shahbazian
Thanks to all! I think I should emphasis on some titles; with help of replies I have read and learned about some topics. 1 - I understand that open source world is very wide and it is not all about Java. My question is should I be a good Java developer before starting programming in Clojure? Or c

Re: Clojure as a 1st language for experienced developer

2009-12-13 Thread dysinger
The 3 major IDEs all have plugins for clojure (InelliiJ IDEA 9 & NetBeans 6.8, Eclipse 3.x) and are free. This might be a good start. There is no "standard" entry point. In the end you will most likely end up on Emacs/Slime if you turn into a lisp nerd. :) I recommend NetBeans w/ Enclojure plu

Clojure as a 1st language for experienced developer

2009-12-13 Thread kaveh_shahbazian
I am a C# developer, writing ASP.NET, Windows Applications, managed libraries for 7 years by now. And before that I had done some C/C++. I have never - well; almost never - stepped out of Microsoft world (out of Visual Studio actually) for any big projects and I am not so fluent in things like auto