Why is the name of the language, "Clojure"?
I googled a bit, asked in #clojure. So far, no luck.
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7Closure + Java/JVM surely. – YXD Jun 21 '11 at 14:40
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1I'm really curious about what the people in #closure said :) – Felix Jun 21 '11 at 14:43
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why is clojure named clojure? [01:02] – Jeb Jun 21 '11 at 14:43jebberjeb: closures, in java? *shrug* -
2Yeah but "Clojure" is more catchy than "A modern Lisp for the JVM". You're overthinking this. – YXD Jun 21 '11 at 14:44
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Exactly, you are grossly overthinking this. Even the angled "j" in the official logo should hint at closure + java. – Felix Jun 21 '11 at 14:45
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1You two underthought it -- tsk. – Jeb Jun 22 '11 at 22:09
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Rich Hickey's (He's the designer of Clojure) comment on that is the 1st reference link on wiki:
Did you pick the name based on starting with the word "closure" and replacing the "s" with "j" for Java? It seems pretty likely, but it would be nice to have that confirmed.
The name was chosen to be unique. I wanted to involve c (c#), l (lisp) and j (java). Once I came up with Clojure, given the pun on closure, the available domains and vast emptiness of the googlespace, it was an easy decision.
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4The most screwed up name of the language is in my oppinion: IO :) Cant find sh** when you need something. – Matjaz Muhic Jul 18 '12 at 12:11
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1Searching on "io-lang" or "iolang" or "iolanguage" seems to get plenty of relevant hits. Google rather cleverly hacked Googlespace for their own new language by clearly recommending that postings and queries related to their newly endorsed language use "golang." It'll do until we have a properly "semantic web" and true ontological disambiguation is ubiquitous. – Jim Dennis Jul 12 '15 at 23:40