Re: Hi, simple problem from a newbie

2011-05-10 Thread Armando Blancas
Don't be put off by these initial difficulties; this stuff is really different. I found this paper a very good read: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pdf It puts the finger on a common problem: "Such a catalogue of “advantages” is all very well, but one must not be surpri

Re: Hi, simple problem from a newbie

2011-05-09 Thread Jonathan Fischer Friberg
I recommend reading a book about lisp. I liked land of lisp: http://landoflisp.com/ Practical common lisp should be good as well: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Some more: http://www.cliki.net/Lisp%20books When you have an understanding of lisp, you can move on to clojure. Practical clojure wo

Re: Hi, simple problem from a newbie

2011-05-08 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:59 PM, iamcreasy wrote: > Hi everybody :) Welcome! > I am an experienced C++ programmer. Recently I decided to try out > clojure(I have some java experience). My background was C++ for most of the 90's then Java for quite a bit of the 00's so I expect you're finding the

Hi, simple problem from a newbie

2011-05-08 Thread iamcreasy
Hi everybody :) I am an experienced C++ programmer. Recently I decided to try out clojure(I have some java experience). I read some tutorials of the basics clojure. Now I want to implement some simple algorithms. Starting with Insertion sort. But, when I have tried to start, I find myself lost.