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Clojure Links To Get You Up To Speed

by mattsears on 6/10/09, 2:50 PM with 11 comments

  • by radu_floricica on 6/10/09, 7:45 PM

    The tutorial by Mark Volkmann is great, and worth reading even if you already program in clojure for a while. There were more then a couple of things I'd skipped on learning in the beginning, or that were introduced after I first read the docs.

  • by peregrine on 6/10/09, 6:29 PM

    I've been looking for something like this for a while. Thanks!

  • by chops on 6/10/09, 6:52 PM

    Awesome. This one is definitely getting bookmarked. I'm definitely planning my next project around Clojure, just to learn the language (my current project is in Erlang and mostly because I got the book for it first).

  • by menloparkbum on 6/10/09, 7:51 PM

    Cool. I just set up a Clojure dev environment.

    My questions:

    1. can I make the REPL do "up arrow goes back in your command history" like BASH does?

    edit: found the answer to this in one of the tutorials

    2. Is clojure a good choice for making a screen scraping bot? normally I would use Perl or Ruby for this.

    3. Is clojure (or any lisp) a good choice for doing complicated data analysis?

  • by icey on 6/10/09, 11:47 PM

    In case anyone is thinking about buying the book: Buy it. It's very good, and it's always nice to have a copy you can leaf through.