Re: clojure-mode survey

2009-09-11 Thread Andy Kish
Very much agreed on the need for a default launcher/script. This is an annoying obstacle to adoption in my mind. Most of the "Getting Started with Clojure" tutorials show you how to launch clojure with java and the jar, and then provide a shell script wrapper to simplify things. On Sep 10, 6:23 a

Re: Ann Arbor Clojure Meetup?

2009-09-11 Thread Andy Kish
I live in Ann Arbor and I'd love to meet people doing clojure stuff. Lance, what ruby meetings have the folks interested in functional languages? SRT solutions hosts a bunch of UGs [1], but I haven't been to any of them yet. If there's not a better place to meet, I'll show up at the AAJUG on the

Re: clojure-mode survey

2009-09-11 Thread Andy Kish
Phil thank you for your work on ESK and clojure-mode. When I started doing more lisp stuff, I knew that I had to move from textmate to emacs. ESK made switching a lot less daunting. I use clojure-install (worked like a charm on debian and os x 10.6) and clojure-update and I find them useful. They

Re: Modeling Data Associations in Clojure?

2009-09-14 Thread Andy Kish
h clojure right now, so report back to the mailing list if something works well for ya! I'm not at the point where I need a db, but if I do I think I'll end up trying to use datalog. Andy Kish. [1] http://clojure.org/api#toc654 [2] h

Re: type checking/inference?

2009-09-16 Thread Andy Kish
Cool! Thanks for the heads up. Most of experience with functional languages has been with Haskell up 'til now, so I've been itching for a type system too. Qi always looked interesting but the goofy website and license drove me away. Maybe I'll have to take another look... Andy K

doc-tests for clojure--please give my library a try!

2009-09-16 Thread Andy Kish
the idea of doc-testing and my code are very welcome! The introduction I wrote to doc-test is below. Thanks! Andy Kish. - doc-test is a Clojure namespace that provides Python-like doctests [1]. WHY DOC-TEST? - Examples are very useful in document