Re: Poll for a new name for clojure eclipse plugin 'clojure-dev'

2009-06-25 Thread Alex Combas
How about the name: jecl "jecl" breaks down: (j)ecl = (j)ava j(ec)l = (ec)lipse je(cl) = (cl)ojure jecl.net is not registered (yet) "develop clojure on eclipse with jecl" has a ring to it, I think ..and of course there is the story of Jekyll(clojure) and Hyde(java) where Jekyll is a good docto

Re: [OT] Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-25 Thread Alex Combas
I'm no expert but I love to argue, so this is what I would say: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: > > > Their concerns are thus: > > 1. How do you get Clojure programmers? Lisp is not for the faint hearted. There has been a lot of re-newed interest in lisp over the past

Re: [OT] github (?) question

2009-06-26 Thread Alex Combas
Yes Rich Hickey's git repository for clojure and clojure-contrib are the main development repositorys. http://github.com/richhickey/clojure/tree/master http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/tree/master The reason why git has no big flashing sign pointing to his repositorys is because git i

Re: [OT] Convincing others about Clojure

2009-06-26 Thread Alex Combas
Thats great to hear, hope everything goes well, let us know how it turns out! Best regards, agc On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: > Laurent, > > > Out of curiosity, which (combination of) advice do you think 'closed the > > deal' ? > > Well, the guy is a real startup v

Re: java.ext.dirs problem

2009-06-27 Thread Alex Combas
Hello, Undoubtedly it is not the best solution, but all I do is export a variable called CLASSPATH pointing to whichever directories I want to require or load. # append to your .bashrc script # Start CLASSPATH=/home/user/aaa:/home/user/bbb:$CLASSPATH export CLASSPATH # End The only gotcha so far

Re: Troll in our midst - please ignore them

2009-06-28 Thread Alex Combas
Hi Rich, Does this mean you're going to be moderating every post, or just posts from new accounts? Either way, perhaps you could start looking around for a couple of people who would do this job of moderating for you because I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that your time would be best used else

Re: Troll in our midst - please ignore them

2009-06-28 Thread Alex Combas
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, CuppoJava wrote: > > Thank you Denfer, > That's a very interesting trick. I'm sure it'll be handy to me in the > future. I really never considered trolls a possibility on this forum. > It seems if that sort of thing interests you, there's much easier and > satisfy