Re: getting started with clojure

2010-10-20 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, On 21 Okt., 00:04, Eric Lavigne wrote: > I hope you are enjoying Clojure. Don't let all of this talk about > compiling distract you from the fun part: writing code. Especially since compilation is not necessarily necessary and in most of the cases even counter-productive. Unless you use gen

Re: getting started with clojure

2010-10-20 Thread Mike Meyer
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:04:17 -0400 Eric Lavigne wrote: > The short answer is that it's okay to use Clojure directly. You don't > need Leiningen. > > If you are familiar with C programming, the difference between the > Clojure compiler and Leiningen is like the difference between GCC and > Make.

Re: getting started with clojure

2010-10-20 Thread Eric Lavigne
The short answer is that it's okay to use Clojure directly. You don't need Leiningen. If you are familiar with C programming, the difference between the Clojure compiler and Leiningen is like the difference between GCC and Make. Using the compiler directly is fine when you have only one file of so

Re: getting started with clojure

2010-10-20 Thread ishkabible
thanks guys, im at school right now so i cant really try anything out, i think im just going to use a text editor with coljure via command line.. yes i was using repl, later i found that i could edit full files by simply saving a new file but could not compile them, i think i will try using command

Re: getting started with clojure

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Lyman
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:55 PM, ishkabible wrote: > lastly i have been messing around with new languages just to try them > out. Fantastic fun! I wish you the best of luck. > in trying out coljure (only functional language i have tried yet) > but i can compile anything longer than one line. Ar

Re: getting started with clojure

2010-10-19 Thread Santosh Rajan
I have written a tutorial just for beginners, that will quickly get you started on clojure. This tutorial was written based on my own experience learning clojure. When learning a new language I am impatient, and like to dive into thick of things immediately. Hopefully this will do the same for oth

Re: getting started with clojure

2010-10-19 Thread Eric Lavigne
I use Leiningen to compile and run my Clojure projects. I create a new project with Leiningen, use Clojure Box to edit code and try out one line at a time, then switch back to Leiningen for downloading libraries or for compiling my own project into a library or program. http://github.com/technoman