I felt the same way until I realized that downloading clojure straight from the
web page was pretty much me "doing it wrong" or attempting to use the "custom
install" that I wasn't ready to do yet (not knowing what I was doing).
Leiningen is the "easy" way to get clojure, contrib, everything el
> Why are folks so insistent on monolingual systems?
This was/is one of the original selling points and philosophies of Rails - a
monolingual system should mean less context switching, less glue code for
things to talk to each other, fewer bugs and mistakes stemming from uniformity
of language,
I agree about the "speed dating" concept or something to have each of us talk
at least once with everyone else (as long as the group size is feasible). We
mostly all groan at these ice breaker type activities but they do tend to work
ok at getting people in larger groups to interact at least on
I second the recommendation to use leiningen.
I can relate to your position of just wanting to play with the libraries and
not being ready to create projects.
But I'm not a classpath ninja of epic proportions. Really, I don't have a
desire to be that. If you aren't either, you will want to us
Try setting %HOME% to something like c:\home, create the dir if needed, and put
your .emacs etc in that folder.
I've found that spaces in paths are still often to blame for issues with
command line and gnu-esque tools.
Thanks,
Peter
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