In a lot of ways, Clojure is a good first language: Except for project.clj files (which you don't absolutely need right off the bat), it's not too hard for a novice to look at a simple Clojure program and not see 40 things he doesn't understand. (I don't know if it's still like this, but the initial C# programs I wrote came with pages of boilerplate, though hidden.)
In other ways, it's less good: any language discouraging state is going to face the "what just happened?" challenge. Clojure, in particular, has a weakness in its multi-page stack dumps, and its "Null Pointer Exception". The former is an awful thing to force a beginner to confront. The latter can be just plain mysterious. I've had good luck with Smalltalk. On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Matching Socks <phill.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The post-Python effect came up briefly in another Conj talk -- in 2015 -- > given by Elena Machkasova and two students, one of whom had had Clojure > first and the other Python. Their school offered it either way. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0yN1GauxCA > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
