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Unix is the language of hackers. If you use a hacker language (Clojure), one should expect the natives to be 90%< unix. I empathize with your pains, but you ca

Unix is the language of hackers. If you use a hacker language (Clojure), one should expect the natives to be 90%< unix. I empathize with your pains, but you can't walk into a biker bar and ask for filet mignon.

WildUtah 16y ago
The premier implementation of Common LISP today -SBCL - doesn't and apparently won't ever run on Windows. Not at release quality, anyway. Windows users should be pleased Clojure runs at all. Well, Windows users should switch, but failing that, they should be pleased...
- joe_the_user 16y ago
  I only run Ubuntu these days but a language that can't make itself multiplatform is just advertising its non-functionality. Languages of value should be abstract and multipurpose.
  - cageface 16y ago
    Windows compatibility is hardly a trivial problem. I'd much rather see the limited resources available for Clojure and SBCL devoted to taking more steps forward than another sideways. Besides, most Windows devs are allergic to anything that doesn't come on an MSDN disc anyway.
  - alnayyir 16y ago
    Almost every windows dev I know (and I know many, owing to being a .NET dev professionally prior to Django/Python) are ignorant of anything that doesn't come from Redmond. It'd be wasted effort, and the communities are smart enough to know that.
  - alnayyir 16y ago
    POSIX compliance is itself multiplatform and multipurpose.
mindblink 16y ago
Well said, alnayyir. I eventually fixed the script, and also endded up running a dual boot Ubuntu install. But, my experience with other more mature languages like Java and Ruby do not involve that level of pain and time. Like joe_the_user said, getting Clojure to function easily in multiple-platform will only help Clojure's credibility. (In some ways, the very expressiveness of LISP creates a this cacophony of ways to do things, but that's a post for another day....)

WildUtah 16y ago

The premier implementation of Common LISP today -SBCL - doesn't and apparently won't ever run on Windows. Not at release quality, anyway. Windows users should be pleased Clojure runs at all. Well, Windows users should switch, but failing that, they should be pleased...

joe_the_user 16y ago
I only run Ubuntu these days but a language that can't make itself multiplatform is just advertising its non-functionality. Languages of value should be abstract and multipurpose.
- cageface 16y ago
  Windows compatibility is hardly a trivial problem. I'd much rather see the limited resources available for Clojure and SBCL devoted to taking more steps forward than another sideways. Besides, most Windows devs are allergic to anything that doesn't come on an MSDN disc anyway.
- alnayyir 16y ago
  Almost every windows dev I know (and I know many, owing to being a .NET dev professionally prior to Django/Python) are ignorant of anything that doesn't come from Redmond. It'd be wasted effort, and the communities are smart enough to know that.
- alnayyir 16y ago
  POSIX compliance is itself multiplatform and multipurpose.

mindblink 16y ago

Well said, alnayyir. I eventually fixed the script, and also endded up running a dual boot Ubuntu install. But, my experience with other more mature languages like Java and Ruby do not involve that level of pain and time. Like joe_the_user said, getting Clojure to function easily in multiple-platform will only help Clojure's credibility. (In some ways, the very expressiveness of LISP creates a this cacophony of ways to do things, but that's a post for another day....)