Re: Parenthesis Inference

2009-12-20 Thread Piyush Ranjan
I may be way off here and if I am feel free to flame! isn't it true that lisp being an AST transfers the overhead of parsing to humans ? Let me restate that: lisp manages to skip a step that other languages do, i.e. parsing the language to AST ? I understand that it gives you great power but at th

Re: How to fund open source Clojure development

2009-12-17 Thread Piyush Ranjan
> > > e. Find a business for whom Clojure is a critical piece of technology. > It is the easiest way to fund it. However AFAIK there is no big/profitable business depending on clojure solely...yet Everything else would eat into Rich's time and hence may not be such a good thing. -- You received

Re: Can Clojure be as fast as Java?

2009-08-12 Thread Piyush Ranjan
This is a troll question. I have seen similar questions posted on other forums about languages like ruby, CL, Haskell, Prolog, C, C++, fortran, bigloo(?) etc by the same poster. Try this link: http://www.google.co.in/search?q=fft1976%40gmail.com On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Nicolas Oury wrot

Re: Package manager proposal

2009-08-04 Thread Piyush Ranjan
Coming from Ruby land and having used other languages before, I feel rubygems is quiet a good solution to this problem. Having something like this in Clojure would be terrific for a person like me who is just starting up. > > > $ clod install foo > > => installing... done. > > $ clj > > user=> (us

Re: Emacs clojure mode: how to set current directory & classpath

2009-07-28 Thread Piyush Ranjan
> >> Another question. Where do I put the clojure & clojure-contrib JAR > files? > > > > If you use the M-x clojure-install command, this should get all the > dependencies. > > > > If you're getting stuck at the "Polling" stage, it's probably because > > you didn't do M-x clojure-install. If you do