> On Mar 17, 2016, at 11:10 AM, blake watson <dsblakewat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Is "lein new app foo" that complicated?
> 
> If I understand Paul correctly—and am not just imposing my own similar 
> feelings on him—the problem is not that "lein new app foo" is complicated, 
> it's that it creates a directory structure that is complicated for the 
> beginner. Clojure is by far not the worst in this regard, but a new app 
> creates seven folders (root, doc, resources, src, test, src/root and 
> test/root) and nine files (.gitignore, .hgignore, CHANGELOG.md, LICENSE, 
> project.clj, README.md, intro.md, core.clj and core_test.clj). This is a lot 
> for someone just trying to grasp "Hello, world."

Understood and agreed. But I just show my students where core.clj is and say to 
ignore everything else, except project.clj which we'll use only to add 
dependencies to use libraries. This seems to be simple enough, in my 
experience. 

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