On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 7:25:54 PM UTC+2, Mike Haney wrote: > > It's almost cliche to say it, but you really do get used to the > parenthesis. Once you do, you won't give it a second thought, and for me > at least, it's the other languages that start to look "weird" with their > irregular syntax. And at least one a week I catch myself writing "(if ..." > or "(for ..." in java, which I have to use for my day job. :(
Not only is Java non-Lispy, but it's also imperative. Java and Clojure are like night and day! > Lighttable is a great environment to start with, and even beyond. I > assumed from the beginning I would have to learn emacs at some point, but > so far I haven't hit limitations with lighttable that are enough to justify > "pushing through the pain" to learn more emacs. > > One big advantage of lighttable is screen real estate. I probably work > 60% of the time on my MacBook with no external monitor, so screen space is > precious. With emacs or sublime, you pretty much need to split your screen > and keep a repl in one part. With lighttable, I get the results of eval > right next to the code, which is a very efficient way to solve this problem. > The only thing missing in LightTable is debugging. I'm not sure classic debugging (stepping, tracing, etc...) is applicable to Clojure, though. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
