I'm becoming more and more impressed with the Java Virtual Machine as I continue to read the Java(TM) Virtual Machine Specification. I haven't done any Java programming, but Clojure has really been fascinating me lately and I've been trying to figure out how to get started. Clojure is a dialect of the lisp programming language designed to compile into Java byte code. I don't know what really got me interested. I guess that it's just that am getting more and more fascinated with managed code and I like lisp. Getting started with clojure has been a problem, though. I don't think I have the background needed to jump in and start working right away. I've done a bit of emacs lisp programming and some common lisp programming, but the only Java I've done was modifying existing programs and all that was pretty basic stuff. So I've been reading the JVM Spec and I'm pretty impressed. It's a nice tight spec. The book itself is written well enough, but you have to understand that it is a specification. If you don't like reading specs, this might be a little tough. After reading this, I hope I'll be ready to get started with Clojure.
Wish me luck.
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