On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > On 24 Mrz., 13:09, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMHO the Java bashing is overrated. Coming from a polyglot-but-non- > java background, I didn't have much trouble getting things running. Is > the CLASSPATH really so much different to the PYTHONPATH, > LD_LIBRARY_PATH or even the plain old PATH itself?
Actually, that would be Java infrastructure bashing. Java-bashing would be complaining about lack of multiple inheritance, the protection mechanisms it inherited from C++, the variable declaration syntax it inherited from C (anyone care to name another language with a variable declaration syntax baroque (or broke) enough to cause someone to write a program to translate between it and English?), etc. There does appear to be one major difference (at least on Unix) between CLASSPATH and your examples: the default values work for simple scripts. In the case of PYTHONPATH & LD_LIBRARY_PATH, the default is "unset", and the infrastructure takes care of checking the obvious places for things. Maybe that's also true with a good Java install, and the default clojure install just isn't "java-aware" enough to put the clojure jar files in the right place. <mike -- Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- 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