Re: [ANN] Elements of Clojure

2016-03-20 Thread Glen Mailer
> > > Maybe this is what's conveyed in some programming contexts, and perhaps > that's reason enough not to use "style" in your title, but "style" doesn't > convey that in general. > > It would appear that "style", being a natural name, has an ambiguous sense. I suppose then that we must rel

Re: [ANN] Elements of Clojure

2016-03-20 Thread Alex Miller
Great to see another book for intermediate level! On Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 12:47:55 PM UTC-5, Zach Tellman wrote: > > I'm writing a book about Clojure, aimed at people who already know the > core concepts, and want to use them more effectively. The first chapter, > "Names", is complete an

Re: [ANN] Elements of Clojure

2016-03-20 Thread Erik Assum
Having just finished the first chapter, I must congratulate you with the best software writing I have read in a long while, maybe ever. I really enjoy how you discuss naming and only use Clojure as a vehicle to illustrate your points. The ideas you put forward should be applicable to any langu

Re: Clojure as first language

2016-03-20 Thread Woo
For many years, MIT taught engineers the Scheme dialect of Lisp as a first language (see: The Wizard Book.) They appear to have moved to Python to get wider access to libraries and infrastructure. I was discussing with a friend recently what would have happened if Clojure had arrived in time.

Re: Clojure as first language

2016-03-20 Thread Paul Gowder
Thinking about this a little more, it seems to me that the real beginner-unfriendly bits of clojure that actually are a problem for basic learning (so not legitimately difficult stuff like quoting and macros) all come from the JVM. Errors that are incomprehensible? JVM. Classpath confusion? JVM

Re: [ANN] Elements of Clojure

2016-03-20 Thread Torsten Uhlmann
Just started reading the first chapter. It makes it even more appealing that the taught techniques are applicable to other programming languages as well. I like the angle the book presents! Torsten. Gregg Reynolds schrieb am Do., 17. März 2016 um 21:03 Uhr: > > On Mar 17, 2016 2:10 PM, "JvJ" w

Re: Similar lisps and emacs reimplementations?

2016-03-20 Thread Ricardo Gomez
This is why I just do public domain software. Licenses aren't very good for plagiarism, which is what I'm really bothered by. -- 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 post

Re: [ClojureScript] Re: ANN: ClojureScript 1.8.34

2016-03-20 Thread Daniel Compton
I may be way off on this, but I would expect :compiler-env, special-fns, warn-on-undeclared to be in figwheel config, not in the compiler config, hence to cause no issues? https://github.com/bhauman/lein-figwheel/tree/v0.5.0-5#client-side-configuration-options On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 12:48 PM Dav