Re: new Getting Started page

2011-09-02 Thread jonathan.watmo...@gmail.com
Is there any reason why the 'Getting Started' shouldn't essentially follow the form: 1. Download clojure and unzip 2. Move to the folder and type 'java -cp clojure.jar clojure.main' in a terminal For the sake of testing your new page, I downloaded clooj (ugly ugly name) and ran it. On trying to c

Re: Getting Clojure into the workplace, how do you do it?

2010-07-06 Thread jonathan.watmo...@gmail.com
On Jul 6, 11:37 am, Edmund Jackson wrote: > An exercise in declarative programming... > > On 6 Jul 2010, at 17:15, Wilson MacGyver wrote: > > > > > > > my story isn't a very interesting one. I simply told everyone on the team to > > learn it, because we are going to use it :) > > > On Tue, Jul 6,

Re: Why I have chosen not to employ clojure

2010-03-22 Thread jonathan.watmo...@gmail.com
On Mar 22, 1:10 am, Luc Préfontaine wrote: > An IDE becomes a necessity as the complexity of your software is > increasing. > > Now what's a complex piece of software ? > > Presently we have 12 components in production some being several > thousand lines covering three languages (Java, Ruby and Cl

Re: Simple functional programming lexicon?

2010-03-17 Thread jonathan.watmo...@gmail.com
On Mar 17, 7:28 am, Ben Armstrong wrote: > I am new to clojure and functional programming, but not to programming > in general, having been in the profession for a quarter of a century.   > I'm trying to stretch myself a bit by learning clojure, but some of the > threads here go beyond mere stretc