On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, nchubrich <nchubr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Read my blog post (written a year ago; updated several times to ensure >> it works with newer versions of Clojure and Leiningen): > >> http://corfield.org/blog/post.cfm/getting-started-with-clojure > >> Now replace clojure.org/getting_started with something like that and I >> think most of the complaints would go away. > > ++++1. That's really all there is to it. The starting path needs to > be Lein and lein repl. If that one section on the Clojure.org website > were changed (it's been there for what----two years?) it would look so > much better to newcomers. Lein can at least get people up and > running, and give them time to play with Clojure while they figure out > IDEs.
Can it? Lein is a script which has to be made executable. So presumably it can for Unix users, probably including MacOS users, that are not completely intimidated or bewildered by a command prompt window. But what about Windows users? For better or for worse, that OS has dominant market share among desktop users, including many likely Clojure newbies. I'd say for them we need a lein.exe. Lein is written in what, Python? If it were bash that would be a problem but it shouldn't be hard to bundle a Python interpreter and the lein script into a Windows executable that can be run at a Windows command prompt and will behave there much as the lein script does on a Linux box. -- Protege: What is this seething mass of parentheses?! Master: Your father's Lisp REPL. This is the language of a true hacker. Not as clumsy or random as C++; a language for a more civilized age. -- 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
