On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:22:49 -0700 (PDT)
Meikel Brandmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24 Mrz., 13:09, Baishampayan Ghose <[email protected]> wrote:
> IMHO the Java bashing is overrated. Coming from a polyglot-but-non-
> java background, I didn't have much trouble getting things running. Is
> the CLASSPATH really so much different to the PYTHONPATH,
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH or even the plain old PATH itself?
Actually, that would be Java infrastructure bashing. Java-bashing
would be complaining about lack of multiple inheritance, the
protection mechanisms it inherited from C++, the variable declaration
syntax it inherited from C (anyone care to name another language with
a variable declaration syntax baroque (or broke) enough to cause
someone to write a program to translate between it and English?), etc.
There does appear to be one major difference (at least on Unix)
between CLASSPATH and your examples: the default values work for
simple scripts. In the case of PYTHONPATH & LD_LIBRARY_PATH, the
default is "unset", and the infrastructure takes care of checking the
obvious places for things.
Maybe that's also true with a good Java install, and the default
clojure install just isn't "java-aware" enough to put the clojure jar
files in the right place.
<mike
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