[justlearning]

"3. The REPL is your friend. Having a really good working environment is crucial to initial learning as well as later development. I would strongly recommend taking the time to set up one of the clojure working environments(Slime/VimClojure/Enclojure) as a first thing, if you have not already done so."

I spent substantial amount of time setting up every environment mentioned and ended up with Clojure-Box. I have not tried emacs before; ideally, i should be trying a new language in a known setup, but I prefer the stability of clojure box, so i am taking my baby steps in emacs too.

[crc]

Been there! :). Clojure was my first lisp and I was learning emacs along with it. Looking back, emacs was a really good investment. Also, the ability to develop and debug through remote swank connections is so useful. Slime(with paredit) and swank bring out the best of lisp development.