The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure

Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by mark_l_watson on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:12AM (#1708855)

I have a perspective on this: I have been using Clojure for work over the last 5+ months but I am also setting up my laptop to finish writing a Common Lisp book while I travel over the next month.

Using Clojure is definitely a nice experience and I am really excited by the future of Clojure as the infrastructure for the language evolves.

However, after hacking Common Lisp for a few days, I have to say that the tools are so very good.

I find myself preferring Clojure the language but prefer the tools and programming environment of Common Lisp.

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by vdm on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:40AM (#1708962)

Are you talking about Emacs or non-Emacs environments, when you say you prefer Common Lisp's?

I keep trying to tame Emacs enough to use it for Clojure and find I spend too much time on Emacs and not enough on Clojure, which is what motivates me in the first place.

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by parfe on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:55AM (#1709023)

After a few false starts with emacs as an IDE I finally learned it via other uses.

I recommend using Emacs for a more simple task. I started reading my mail via Wanderlust (wl-beta package on debian) and using ERC to connect to freenode (Now running rcirc.)

I know how irc works so my attention wasn't split too much and I was able to pick up the emacs stuff quickly. Now I've expanded it to be my python IDE.

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by mark_l_watson on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:49AM (#1708999)

I use Emacs for both.

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