Hi, My background: about 40 years experience in many fields of computing, mainly in the Scientific Computing Area. My experience ranges from working with small machines (not in physical size - 4 Kbyte core memory) in 1970, early adapter of Unix (1976), early experimentor with Linux (from version 0.12 I seem to remember), and I have used or experimented with MANY programming languages, including LISP, Objective-C, Smalltalk, Scheme, Python and Ruby but didnt make real practical use of many due to political restrictions and standards within the company I worked for. Now I am being drawn to dig into Clojure, and being retired, I should have enough time for that. HOWEVER, for some reason I always kept clear from JAVA... The reason for that I wont go into at this moment. Clojure and also the JVM make me recosider this. The JVM is something which cant be ignored, certainly seeing the very good use of it for example by Clojure and JRuby. (It does remind me of the P-code what was generated by the first Pascal compiler)
The question: As i think I should get a better understanding of Java and the environment of the JVM to better understand the Clojure environment, I need to get one or two books on that, to lay a base to build upon. So I need suggestions on my order with Amazon: What book or books should I order to base my JAVA knowledgde on ? Of course if this information is available in a good, readable way on the web, I would appreciate it to have some pointers, but I want to have at least ONE real book to fall back to. Thanks for your suggestions. Leo Noordhuizen - The Netherlands --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
