p.s. I think idea + la enclosure works quite well....why beginners are
always introduced to emacs solution?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:45 AM, fenton <fenton.trav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Brad, I've updated my doc with your questions. Here is how I responded
> to your particular queries. Note the answer may not be correct as I'm a
> clojure newbie myself.
>
> -------------
>
> Leiningen is a build tool like maven for java, or rake (i think) for
> ruby. You can use it to publish your jar into maven repositories for
> example.
>
> Slime is a protocol that lets you communicate from emacs to a
> listening server. In clojure, we start a swank server, which is the
> clojure REPL process, and connect to it from emacs, speaking 'slime'.
> The net effect is that we can have a REPL inside our emacs editor.
>
> -------------
>
>
> On Thursday, June 21, 2012 5:58:23 PM UTC-7, brad bowman wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:58:19 PM UTC+10, John Gabriele wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jun 18, 10:23 pm, Chris Zheng <zcaud...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > {snip}
>>> > So basically, if a 'lead clojure evangelist' can either 'officially'
>>> or
>>> > 'unofficially' recommend ONE emacs setup, along with a bunch of
>>> > videos/tutorials that demonstrate how to code and how fast it is to
>>> design
>>> > and code using the repl. Then that be enough to get people at least
>>> > interested.
>>>
>>> People are very opinionated about their editor/IDE. I think the Getting
>>> +Started docs are good --- they separate:
>>>
>>> * if you want just Emacs plus the repl, here you go (clojure-mode
>>> readme)
>>> * if you want Emacs + inferior-lisp, do this (this doc needs work)
>>> * if you want Emacs + swank/slime, do this (swank-clojure readme)
>>>
>>> and of course also info on Eclipse, Clooj, and other editors/ide's as
>>> well.
>>>
>>
>> I'm right at the start of this process, completely unfamiliar with
>> Clojure,
>> Leiningen, Emacs, Java and all of the projects with cute names.
>> I don't even know what I want.
>>
>> I've cut and pasted various git-clone and lein commands, but have no idea
>> about the bigger picture. I'm happy to dawdle along on my own, but if my
>> current (and hopefully temporary) ignorance can provide feedback on a
>> start-up guide then let me know.
>>
>> At present I'm often wondering "what is this thing? why do I want it?".
>> Slime for example. I don't especially want answers here, but something
>> like
>> a glossary for the clojure ecosystem would be handy (not that I've looked
>> hard).
>>
>> Another document that might useful is a platform Rosetta stone
>> matching clojure tools and libraries to those that fill a similar role in
>> other
>> languages (Java and Ruby for starters). This is more of a "nice to have".
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brad
>>
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