Re: The % Schemer Series - are they worth the money?

At 10:45 AM 3/23/2010, Per Vognsen wrote: >The Little Schemer is very basic. The Reasoned Schemer is quite >advanced and definitely a worthwhile read. > >If you're looking for excellent Lisp reading material, you can't go >wrong with Steele and Sussman's The Art of the Interpreter and their >Lambda

Re: Second Lisp to Learn

At 02:31 PM 12/20/2009, Sean Devlin wrote: >Hi everyone, >After hacking Clojure for a while, I've come to the conclusion that >studying a second Lisp would help. So, what do the people here >think? What is a good Lisp to study? While my preference here prior to learning about Clojure has been Sc

Re: Parenthesis Inference

At 12:09 PM 12/20/2009, Richard Newman wrote: >[...] >I think most of the active Clojure community ranges from not caring to >genuinely liking s-expression notation, And all the way to disliking the replacement of many parens with square brackets in the syntax. That's why I, a pendant who prio

Re: Clojure as a first programming language?

At 09:42 AM 12/1/2009, Base wrote: >[...] > >I rhighly recommend you check out SICP (free HTML book herehttp:// >mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html and videos here >http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/) Note that while quite useful and fun, these

Re: Improving the documentation

At 10:20 AM 8/18/2009, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: >Hi, Greetings and salutations. >On Aug 18, 4:50 pm, Harold Ancell wrote: > >> When I stumbled on the clojure-1.0.0.jar problem I updated >> the appropriate page there in a few minutes including >> registering an ac

Re: Improving the documentation

At 09:18 AM 8/18/2009, John Newman wrote: >I believe >http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming > is the intended central location for contributing documentation. One issue with that site is its limited scope, "Wikibooks is a Wikimedia com