Re: New developments in beginner-friendly editing/repl environments?

2018-08-30 Thread Philipp Neumann
I never understood how Python is so popular, where spacing is most important. Other than that, I really prefer parinfer over paredit, because I don't have to memorize all the key shortcuts to slurp, barf, split and slice. Using tab and shift tab to control parens is really intuitive, because I

Re: New developments in beginner-friendly editing/repl environments?

2018-08-30 Thread Timothy Baldridge
> I never understood how Python is so popular, where spacing is most important. > Using tab and shift tab to control parens is really intuitive, because I want to structure my code anyway and doing it the parinfer way is no big adjustment. I think you answered your own question On Thu, Aug 30, 2

Re: New developments in beginner-friendly editing/repl environments?

2018-08-30 Thread 'Lee' via Clojure
I've got a super intuitive way to control parens: Type them! :-) On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 7:59:45 AM UTC-4, tbc++ wrote: > > > I never understood how Python is so popular, where spacing is most > important. > > > Using tab and shift tab to control parens is really intuitive, because I >

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Agile in 2018 - Martin Fowler talk

2018-08-30 Thread Alan Thompson
Very good talk if you haven't seen it yet: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-2018 -- 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: New developments in beginner-friendly editing/repl environments?

2018-08-30 Thread Sean Corfield
'Lee' via Clojure said, on Thursday, August 30, 2018 9:25 AM: > I've got a super intuitive way to control parens: Type them! :-) I think this is the perfect time for http://corfield.org/articles/omg_parens.png :) Sean -- You received this message because you

Re: New developments in beginner-friendly editing/repl environments?

2018-08-30 Thread Mark Engelberg
As someone who has taught beginners, I agree 100% with Lee's wishlist. It is very important to have an easy install process that gets you to an editing environment that lets you leverage existing text editing skills with minimal or no paren magic, with a focus on making the indenting reflect what