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Re: Clojure Distilled

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When using rawgit, please follow the owners request about using cdn.rawgit.com for anything that might result in heavy traffic. I guess links submitted to HN often results in heavy traffic. https://rawgit.com/faq#diff-between-rawgit-and-cdn

So the url should be changed to this (which loads for me):

https://cdn.rawgit.com/yogthos/yogthos.github.com/master/Clo...

Re: Clojure Distilled

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I'm currently learning Clojure. For all the "aha!" moments, there are plenty of "WTFs?", too. Not that it's a fault of the language, it's just that it requires a different way of looking at things. I've only skimmed this article, but look forward to reading it in depth later. Thanks!

I'd be interested if anyone has some similar pieces to share.

Re: Clojure Distilled

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post #9

I'm currently learning Clojure. For all the "aha!" moments, there are plenty of "WTFs?", too. Not that it's a fault of the language, it's just that it requires a different way of looking at things. I've only skimmed this article, but look forward to reading it in depth later. Thanks! I'd be interested if anyone has some similar pieces to share.

Most of my Clojure WTFs were not related to the language itself, but rather the tooling. This was years ago, but everyone used to say, "Before diving into Clojure, you should really learn emacs and all these other things first." I'm glad I ignored them and sputtered along in a text editor while learning the basics of the language, because I would've otherwise burnt out.

With apps like Light Table now available, maybe beginners have an easier ramp these days.

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