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Jeb
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Why is Clojure named Clojure

Why is the name of the language, "Clojure"?

I googled a bit, asked in #clojure. So far, no luck.

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Alex K.
Alex K.

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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.

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/766b75baa7987850

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