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The guide appears to assume one is on Mac OS X or Linux without explicitly stating as such (unless I missed it, in which case my bad). That's not good for a world where most people programming on a desktop are on Windows (Mac user myself).

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The linked leiningen page includes detailed installation instructions for all platforms, including a windows installer.

mot windows users wouldn't go that far. As soon as they try the "wget ..." command and nothing happened, they quit the "from the ground up" guide.

Good point. Perhaps we need a "Terminal" program for windows that just works, installs the common bash tools for windows, and everyone is referred to.

I say this because if a windows user actually opens up their terminal and types in wget, I'd say they're lucky to give up so early considering that the terminal they're using is straight trash. You can't even make it full screen.

Is Cygwin unsatisfactory?

For quick start, light uses it absolutely is.

This is wrong on so many levels. There are lots of ways on any given platform that will get you what you want without wget. Since powershell is installed by default since w7 it'd be nicer to just (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile or similar. I'm also offended by the bash-referrals as a zsh-user :)

In fact lein will use powershell if it doesn't find wget.

I thought one of the changes in later versions of PowerShell was there is now an internal version of wget? I know when I use the gnu one I have use specify "wget.exe" instead of "wget" (Invoke-WebRequest) but I can't remember when I started having to. Windows 8 perhaps?

One can find windows binaries for popular unix commands.

Nice guide! Is there more coming? I also loved your explorations on network partitions, keep up the good work!

Thank you, and yes, there will be more.

wget ~/bin "aphyr@waterhouse:~/scratch$ lein repl"

I'd spend a bit more time on this. Beginners are quite likely to have windows boxes, and Clojure doesn't work very well on windows. Indeed, telling them to run lein on windows is a recipe for yak-shaving of the first order. (Don't believe me: try switching to windows for a month.)

I'd recommend a virtual box to new Clojure programmers on Windows.

And if you are on a mac, I would the think the preferred way to install would with homebrew (brew install leiningen)

No, no. In fact, last time I checked, the lein docs warn about using brew because the versions may be out of date.

From its README:

    > If your preferred package manager has a relatively 
    > recent version of Leiningen, try that first. 
    > Otherwise you can install by hand:

It's kept up to date: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula...

The Guide also assumes bash. For anyone who ran any of the github installers (win included) it should work ootb.

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