Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-17 Thread J.R. Garcia
Thanks all for the recommendation of The Joy of Clojure! I received my copy in the mail about two hours ago and I've already read up to Chapter 2 (am I the only that reads the foreword and acknowledgments?). It's hard to work with this book sitting next to me. It's been great so far! Thanks again,

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread Ken Wesson
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Gregg Williams wrote: > This is good advice, but I can't parse 1a after the phrase "or maybe", > and I'm not sure about 1b. Can you reword them, making it clearer when > you're using a Clojure keyword? I want to be sure I understand what > you're saying--it sounds

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread Gregg Williams
This is good advice, but I can't parse 1a after the phrase "or maybe", and I'm not sure about 1b. Can you reword them, making it clearer when you're using a Clojure keyword? I want to be sure I understand what you're saying--it sounds insightful! Thanks. On May 11, 9:09 pm, Ken Wesson wrote: > On

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread Paul deGrandis
I'll also jump on that, I'm on my second or third full read of Joy of Clojure. Just a great book about the why and when of the language features ("why does feature X exist, when should I use it, when am I abusing it"). Paul On May 12, 2:55 pm, Sean Corfield wrote: > I'll +1 on The Joy of Clojur

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread Sean Corfield
I'll +1 on The Joy of Clojure. I have the PDF on my iPhone and dip into it early and often. Probably on my fourth full read of it now on my iPad too. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Islon Scherer wrote: > Read the joy of clojure, it's an amazing book that will teach you the > way of clojure. --

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread J.R. Garcia
Thanks for the recommendations, guys! I'll be checking those resources out. On May 12, 10:25 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2011 07:45:50 -0700 (PDT) > > Adam Burry wrote: > > On May 12, 11:54 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > As others have said, this sounds like you need a book on > > > fun

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 12 May 2011 07:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Adam Burry wrote: > On May 12, 11:54 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > > As others have said, this sounds like you need a book on > > functional/LISP programming. There are some excellent books for other > > LISP dialects. "Structure and Interpretation of Computer P

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread Sam Ritchie
Here's a style guide for Scheme, another dialect of Lisp: http://mumble.net/~campbell/scheme/style.txt It's a fun read, and mostly applicable to Clojure. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 19:10:13 -0700 (PDT) > "J.R. Garcia" wrote: > > > I'm wondering wh

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread Adam Burry
On May 12, 11:54 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > As others have said, this sounds like you need a book on > functional/LISP programming. There are some excellent books for other > LISP dialects. "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" > (aka SICP) would be my recommendations, but "Practical

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread Islon Scherer
Read the joy of clojure, it's an amazing book that will teach you the way of clojure. Islon -- 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 -

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread Stuart Halloway
> This, no the other hands, is a little bit contradictory. The example > about syntax and white space than writing code "the Clojure way", > though you explicitly say that's not what you're interested in. Seems > like you're asking for a community style guide. Again, I don't know > that such exists

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 11 May 2011 19:10:13 -0700 (PDT) "J.R. Garcia" wrote: > I'm wondering what resources would be best to learn how Clojurians > write their code. > > I've been developing for about 4 years in several object-oriented > languages (mostly C# and Ruby). I understand Clojure's syntax well and >

Re: Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-11 Thread Ken Wesson
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:10 PM, J.R. Garcia wrote: > I'm wondering what resources would be best to learn how Clojurians > write their code. > > I've been developing for about 4 years in several object-oriented > languages (mostly C# and Ruby). I understand Clojure's syntax well and > I'm familia

Learning Idiomatic Clojure

2011-05-11 Thread J.R. Garcia
I'm wondering what resources would be best to learn how Clojurians write their code. I've been developing for about 4 years in several object-oriented languages (mostly C# and Ruby). I understand Clojure's syntax well and I'm familiar with a lot of the features of Clojure (although I'm sure severa