Use another language?

[Santosh Joseph]

I was wondering if it would be worthwhile if I were to follow along with another language like F# or Haskell?
thanks.

PS: we just don't use the JVM at my work.

[Adrian Mowat]

Hey Santosh

I'm no expert but I think you would struggle to translate the examples if you are not familiar with both clojure and the other language you chose.

If it helps, you can also run clojure on on the JavaScript runtime...

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript

....and the .net CLR too 

http://clojure.org/clojureclr

From memory, I don't recall anything java specific from the book so you should be fine.

If you need help getting started, you should find the community mailing list is really friendly and helpful...

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/clojure

Hope this helps

Adrian 

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[Brian Marick]

On May 30, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Santosh Joseph <santosh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I was wondering if it would be worthwhile if I were to follow along with another language like F# or Haskell?
> thanks.

There are certain chapters in the book that are on one side of the big "static types vs dynamic types" divide. Doing the exercises in F# or Haskell would be hard.