On 27 May 2010 15:38, Base <[email protected]> wrote:
> Regarding Clojure I got Stuart Halloway's book Programming Clojure
Another recommendation! Looks like that's definite then :-) Thanks.
> Also, I spend a *lot* of time on this site and ask a lot of really
> dumb questions. Clojure has the best group support by far of any
> language I have ever seen. The people on this board are truly
> amazingly helpful and patient - even with us newbies :)
Reassuring to know. As I suspect my dumb questions will be heavily
JVM-biased ("What's a classpath?") I'll probably need all the patience
people can muster!
Actually here's a JVM sort of question to start off with. To run my
little database monitor script on Windows, I use a command line
java -cp
clojure.jar;clojure-contrib.jar;D:\Oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\jdbc\lib\classes12.jar
clojure.main db.clj
That's a pretty hairy command line, just to run a script with no
parameters! What's the best way to tidy this up (on the Windows
command line)? I'd prefer not to wrap it in a batch file for a couple
of reasons - two files to maintain, and batch files have some
irritating properties on Windows.
For the script, I can associate "java -cp clojure.jar clojure.main %*"
with the .clj extension and that's OK, But is there a way of adding
the references to the other jars from within the script, so I don't
need to specify the classpath on the command line?
> The hardest part for me was getting things configured. It is really
> confusing - particularly if you have no background to java. Most of
> the users here use emacs for their IDE. If you know emacs you can
> certainly try that. There is Clojure in a Box that is a self
> contained package If you do not use emacs ( I do not - it is too damn
> confusing for me) then i recommend using and IDE that has clojure
> support. There is one for Netbeans called Enclojure. I use Eclipse
> and a plugin called CounterClockwise. I really like it.
As a non-Java user, I'm strongly averse to the various IDEs.
Personally, I'm a Vim user and I like to do my compiling from the
command line. Hopefully, the "bare metal" approach won't get me into
too much trouble!
> Stu Halloway has a great starting tutorial with instructions on how to
> get up to speed and has a series of tutorials via a web server
> (integrated into the app). It is located at:
>
> http://github.com/relevance/labrepl
>
> This is where I would start. It has helped me out immensely.
That looks like a great resource! Thanks!
Paul.
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