Why is Clojure named Clojure

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

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

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Solution 1 - Clojure

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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