Appendix A

Editor Support

Editor support for Clojure is evolving rapidly, so some of the information here may be out-of-date by the time you read this. Check the archives of the mailing list1 for recent announcements.

Clojure code is concise and expressive. As a result, editor support is not quite as important as for some other languages. However, you will want an editor than can at least indent code correctly and can match parentheses.

While writing the book, I used Emacs plus Jeffrey Chu’s clojure-mode, available at http://github.com/jochu/clojure-mode. Emacs support for Clojure is quite good, but if you are not already an Emacs user, you might prefer to start with an editor you are familiar with from among these:

Editor	Project Name	Project URL
Eclipse	clojure-dev2	http://code.google.com/p/clojure-dev/
Emacs	clojure-mode	http://github.com/jochu/clojure-mode
IntelliJ IDEA	La Clojure	http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=4050
jEdit	jedit modes	http://github.com/djspiewak/jedit-modes/tree/master/
NetBeans	enclojure	http://enclojure.org
TextMate	clojure-tmbundle	http://github.com/nullstyle/clojure-tmbundle
Vim	Gorilla	http://kotka.de/projects/clojure/gorilla.html
Vim	VimClojure	http://kotka.de/projects/clojure/vimclojure.html

Bill Clementson has written a quick overview that includes setting up Clojure, Emacs support, and debugging with JSwat.3

1.http://groups.google.com/group/clojure

2.http://code.google.com/p/clojure-dev/

3.http://bc.tech.coop/blog/081023.html

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Appendix B

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[McC06]	Steve McConnell. Software Estimation: Demystifying the
	Black Art. Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 2006.

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