On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:56 PM, cageface <milese...@gmail.com> wrote: > > However, as I also said in the thread, I think the *real* obstacles > for a noobie are the concepts in the language itself. Clojure is very > elegantly designed, but it builds on some very powerful and somewhat > difficult concepts. Stuart's book is a big help here but I'm afraid > that Clojure is simply over the heads of a lot of "noobs" anyway. > > So I wonder how much making the first few baby steps easier is really > going to help the uptake of Clojure. I have to imagine that the kind > of person that can't figure out a CLASSPATH is going to have his head > explode when he has to figure out how to restructure all his > iterations in terms of loop/recur.
It depends. I found the concepts pretty easy, since I have done a lot of functional programming, but when I was new to clojure I had a truly horrible time figuring out the various classpath issues needed to get things working. I'd say that definitely belongs in a newbie's guide, with every step spelt out in as much detail as possible. martin -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
